Pure Immersion
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Dave Biddle, Dave Ehrenreich
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
An actress healing from cosmetic surgery pulls over in a small town and gets seduced by the local lore after a wild cat allegedly mauls her at a roadside fruit stand. The fruit stand may know more than it's saying.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A post-surgery road movie that decides regional mythology is more interesting than recovery — agreed, frankly. The kind of slow-burn weird that earns its mood.
Vanity-recovery road trip warped by regional cryptid folklore is the right kind of strange — Picnic at Hanging Rock detouring through a Twin Peaks rest stop is a precise tonal address. Intrigued.
A face-bandaged actress at a roadside fruit stand getting absorbed into cryptid lore is a beautifully specific tonal address — Picnic-at-Hanging-Rock-via-Twin-Peaks-rest-stop is the right frame. Willa Holland leading sells it.
Reviews
A strangely engrossing tale set in a world of its own, a striking mystery filled with beautiful vistas and unsettling exchanges.