Lily Polansky
2015 · 11m · Canadá
Directed by Juan Sepúlveda
Genres: crime, mystery, thriller
A suspect receives a visit from a detective and his former psychiatrist; during the interrogation the detective tries to clarify the events that led to the disappearance of young Lily Polanski.
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A procedural interrogation thriller that plays it brutally straight—which is exactly why it doesn't work; the premise demands narrative rupture, not competent crime-drama furniture.
Sepúlveda demonstrates formal control in the interrogation chamber, invoking the classical locked-room constraint, though the film settles into convention rather than interrogating it.
The decision to withhold Lily's fate until the final moment—letting the detective's confusion *become* the viewer's—transforms a standard thriller into something that trusts the audience's unease instead of resolving it.