{"id":166901,"date":"2021-01-30T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knocking-review-sundance-2021-film\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:00:49","slug":"knocking-review-sundance-2021-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knocking-review-sundance-2021-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knocking Review: Sundance 2021 \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knocking Review: Sundance 2021 \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Molly (Cecilia Milocco<\/strong>) has just left a mental institution and is ready to start over. Her new life takes her to an apartment complex, but as a heatwave sets in, this place of potential new beginnings turns ominous. There\u2019s a strange, inexplicable knocking sound coming from the apartment above \u2013 or so Molly thinks. No one else in the building can hear it, and when Molly asks her upstairs neighbors if they\u2019re making the noises they greet her questions with confusion. But\u00a0something<\/em> is going on in this building\u2026or is it?<\/p>\n

With\u00a0Knocking<\/em><\/strong>, director\u00a0Frida Kempff<\/strong> unleashes a film rich in textures and a foreboding atmosphere. Kempff favors close-ups, and there are\u00a0a lot<\/em> of them here. Close-ups of pieces of fruit; of sweaty skin; of plastered walls and ceilings. In theory, all of these things are harmless; mundane, even. Yet in Kempff\u2019s hands (and through\u00a0Hannes Krantz<\/strong>\u2018s lush, crisp cinematography), even the humdrum can app<\/a>ear horrifying. There are bad vibes afoot in nearly every frame of\u00a0Knocking \u2013<\/em> we get the sense right from the jump that everything here is\u00a0wrong<\/em>.
\nMilocco heightens all of this as Molly, a woman fresh from a mental hospital. Knowing Molly\u2019s status immedia<\/a>tely makes us draw assumptions about her mental state. If she\u2019s getting out of the hospital she must be feeling better \u2013 right? And we can chalk up her nervousness about her new apartment to something resulting from her new life \u2013 a life that\u2019s void of her partner, whom we catch in flashbacks set at an idyllic day at the beach.<\/p>\n

The claustrophobia of Molly\u2019s new apartment coupled with the presence of stifling heat captures us in a vice-like grip, and we\u2019re helpless as we\u2019re drawn along with Molly as she becomes more and more certain something is very wrong here. She witnesses a couple fighting in the courtyard below \u2013 but the couple later denies it. She\u2019s\u00a0positive<\/em> she saw someone leap to their death from one of the apartment balconies \u2013 but there\u2019s no body to be found. And, of course, there are those damn knocking sounds. Are they innocuous? The sounds of someone hammering a nail to hang a painting, perhaps? Or are they the\u00a0Morse code signals of someone desperate for help?<\/p>\n

At times,\u00a0Knocking<\/em> wants to comment on the horrors of gaslighting, with everyone around Molly doubtful of her very sanity And the clever way the film depicts all of these happenings makes us accomplices to that \u2013 we can\u2019t help but assume that Molly really is having some sort of breakdown, and none of this is real. But it\u2019s very real to Molly, and she grows more and more unmoored as the sounds continue. Milocco, who occupies practically every single scene, has to carry all of this on her shoulders, and she nails it. Her performance is simultaneously internalized and on the surface, and we\u2019re immersed within her haggard mindset. As her neighbors give her dirty looks we wonder if they\u2019re justified in their judgments \u2013 or if they\u2019re hiding far more sinister truths.<\/p>\n

What hampers\u00a0Knocking<\/em> is a surprisingly brief runtime \u2013 it clocks in at a little over an hour. A good movie is only as long or short as it needs to be, but\u00a0Knocking<\/em> suffers from its short narrative. Just when we feel like we\u2019re hitting a groove the entire thing grinds to a halt in a most unsatisfying way. It feels as if\u00a0Emma Brostr\u00f6m simply ran out of ideas and threw in the towel.<\/p>\n

As a sensory experience,\u00a0Knocking<\/em> is stunning. The heightened sounds mixed with a stuffy, collapsing ambiance\u00a0create an unforgettable experience. Pity that the narrative in the midst of all of this fails to match that power.\u00a0Knocking<\/em> gets the job done \u2013 but barely. In the end, it\u2019s as fleeting as Molly\u2019s fractured, fading memories.
\n\/Film rating: 6.5 out of 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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