Synopsis
Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
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Cast
- Olivia MunnViolet
- Luke BraceyRed
- Justin TherouxThe Voice
- Dennis BoutsikarisTom Gaines
- Erica AshLila
- Zachary GordonBradley
- Todd StashwickRick
- Bonnie BedeliaAunt Helen
- Peter JacobsonRoger Vale
- Jim O'HeirDennis Fitcher
Recommendations
- 75
The Film Stage
Demystifying the backroom deals of film financing, Bateman has crafted an authentic-looking and -feeling commentary on show business designed perhaps to make the kinds of acquisition professionals and insiders who attend festivals and film markets uncomfortable. - 75
Observer
Violet’s editing and texture effectively convey what the character is feeling, and while its noncommittal camera choices occasionally prevent the viewer from feeling it alongside her, Munn’s performance, and the film’s eventual narrative trajectory, are incisive enough to get around its visual shortcomings. - 70
Screen Daily
Olivia Munn is quite touching as the title character, and the picture cleverly dramatises the conflicting thoughts that bounce around inside us and, often, dictate our lives. - 70
TheWrap
Because Munn wisely underplays, she’s able to creep across the high-wire Bateman has stretched out, in which Violet perpetually balances deadpan external calm with overwhelming internal detonation. - 67
IndieWire
While Bateman’s more florid touches sometimes wear, Munn is so devastatingly good at selling Violet’s internal strife that it’s easy to forgive Bateman’s other creative impulses. With a star this well-suited for the role, Bateman has already proven her salt as a keen-eyed filmmaker. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Munn’s exquisitely readable face, which cycles through emotional states with delicate flickers, is Bateman’s strongest asset. Her weakest is her storytelling. - 60
Variety
There’s bravery in Bateman’s willingness to explore this state of mind, to put so much of herself on the table, but she rolls credits just as things were getting interesting: when Violet blocks out the voices and finally starts listening to herself. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The story itself finally feels lost beneath the levels of artifice rather than heightened by it.
