In the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot movie Unsane, texting leads straight to the insane asylum
At this point, people who follow cinema know to manage their expectations when anyone prominent claims they’re leaving the film industry. Steven Soderbergh said he was retiring from filmmaking back in 2013, but he returned to the big screen for 2017’s heist film Logan Lucky. He’s also stayed active in television with The Knick and Mosaic, and now he’s back with the horror movie Unsane. It seems like all he needs to be drawn out of retirement is some new piece of technology or filmmaking idea he wants to explore. With Unsane, that technology is… the iPhone.
In Unsane, a protagonist played by Claire Foy (The Crown, Wolf Hall) is dealing with a digital stalker who won’t leave her alone. Her attempts to get law enforcement involved somehow…
