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PRESENCE – Zack Ryan
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Presence is the latest film from the highly eclectic filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, whose efforts over the years have veered from the mainstream (Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Magic Mike), to the arthouse (Sex Lies and Videotape, Solaris), to the boldly experimental (The Girlfriend Experience). Presence sort of blurs the lines between all three; essentially a meditation on death and grief dressed up with horror/thriller overtones, the film is told from the point of view of ‘the presence,’ a spectral poltergeist-like figure that haunts a house that has just become the new home of a suburban family – mom Lucy Liu, dad Chris Sullivan, and their children Callina Liang and Eddy Maday. To reveal more about the plot would be an injustice, suffice to say that the film has been broadly praised for its technical elements, its performances, and for the philosophical undertones of writer David Koepp’s screenplay. Read more…
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