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3 February 2016
3 October 2012
Raindance 2012: Confine Review
A tale of robbery, suspense, torment, kidnap and murder; with Confine, director and writer Tobias Tobell has managed to conjure up that most elusive and miraculous of things; a genuinely torturous horror movie.
Following an horrendous car crash, former model Pippa (Daisy Lowe) has been reduced to a gibbering, neurotic shut-in, limping around her flat and communicating only via telephone or Skype. Facially disfigured by the accident, she never ventures from the safe confines of her living space, preferring to remain locked-away, dealing art in order to raise money for various charitable causes; the many hundreds of magazines that populate her bedroom, are a constant reminder of the life she has known and lost.
Pippa’s life of seclusion comes to an end courtesy of Kayleigh (Eliza Bennett) and Henry (Alfie Allen), a couple of criminals involved in a nearby jewellery heist, who make Pippa a prisoner in her own home, before brutally turning on each other.
Confine attempts to generate a sense of discomfort, of visceral, verbal horror by placing its emphasis on the uneasy, potentially deadly relationship which is struck up between Pippa and Kayleigh. An unknown quantity, Kayleigh veers dangerously between perniciously cute, and sadistically violent. The result is a movie which may well have been superb, if it weren’t so incomprehensibly written or woodenly acted.
As she wobbles around the screen, wheezing into paper bags and muttering garbled nonsense, Daisy Lowe looks every inch a model pretending to be an actor pretending to be a model. At 5 foot 4 in heels and 8 stone wet-through, Eliza Bennett may well be the least physically intimidating villain imaginable. So ghastly is the double-act performed by Daisy Lowe and Eliza Bennett, it very quickly becomes difficult to watch. Protracted moments of supposedly-threatening dialogue, become toe-curlingly embarrassing, as the women bicker like a couple of siblings fighting over the last Turkey Drummer.
With so much of the film focusing so intently on the knife-edge relationship between Pippa and Kayleigh , there’s simply nowhere for its actors to hide; or its audience for that matter.
Chris Banks (@Chris_in_2D)
Rating: NC 15
UK Release Date: 1St October 2012 (Raindance Film Festival)
Directed By: Tobias Tobbell
Cast: Alfie Allen, Eliza Bennett, Daisy Lowe, Corinne Kempa
Confine Trailer from Two Bells Productions on Vimeo.
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