Together review – codependent relationship body horror is a fun ride
Sundance film festival: Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie play a couple put to the ultimate test in a slickly and sickly made thriller
We all know couples like Tim and Millie. Never an I, always a we. Never an immediate answer, always an “I should probably check with him/her first.” Never alone, always together.
Your initial view, or more likely judgment, of their relationship is probably going to depend on your own, and in the under-the-radar Sundance horror Together, the first-time writer-director Michael Shanks invites us into their stifling two-person world to make up our own mind. They’re played by the real-life husband and wife Alison Brie and Dave Franco, who also starred together in the far less enjoyable thriller The Rental, a film full of empty recycling with the pretence of something new. There’s far less pretentiousness and far more originality here, despite the plot kicking off with the old “going from the city to the country to start a new life” trope. For Tim and Millie, it’s adding further distance from them and those around and at a going away party, there are already cracks underneath the smugness, tensions that are only slightly masked by the unintentionally cute matching outfits.
Together is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution
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