The entire film is shot entirely from the ghost's point of view, the audience haunting a family that has recently moved into a New Jersey home, not realizing that something was already living there. Critic Sean Burns says it's a great gimmick,
Steven Soderbergh’s new chiller takes place in one of the most troubled of all movie locations: an outwardly normal family home.
Steven Soderbergh's "Presence" is an unconventional haunted house story told from the perspective of the ghost -- and we've got the details.
Presence” — 2 stars In Steven Soderbergh’s gimmicky, unscary ghost story “Presence,” we the audience become the supernatural entity roaming through a large suburban house with
Also starring Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, and Callina Liang, Presence originally premiered at Sundance Film Festival last January, where Neon bought the distribution rights in a $5 million deal. Critics described the film as a “slow burn,” despite the film’s brief 85-minute runtime, so settle in.
The tingly thriller “Presence” starts with a knockout premise: What if you told a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost? Each scene in Steven Soderbergh’s impeccably crafted film is a single take that glides silently from room to room observing what happens in an ordinary suburban house.
SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and only time Peter Andrews has a camera operator credit. That’s not a credit that I typically take because I don’t nee
Backstage Experience's Dave Morales spoke to the stars of the new film Presence, Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan, which is about a family who starts to think they're not alone in their new home.
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By no means is this a slight against the film; Presence is a well-crafted experimental bit of fun that works pretty well. The movie is told from a unique perspective: the entire film is shot in first person.