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Infinity
Pool (2023)
 
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Directed by:
Brandon
Cronenberg |
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COUNTRY
Canada/Croatia/Hungary |
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GENRE
Horror/Science Fiction |
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NORWEGIAN TITLE
Infinity Pool |
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RUNNING TIME
118
minutes |
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Produced by:
Karen Harnisch
Andrew Cividino
Christina Piovesan
Noah Segal
Rob Cotterill
Anita Juka
Daniel Kresmery
Jonathan Halperyn |
Written by:
Brandon Cronenberg |
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Cast
includes:
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CHARACTER |
ACTOR/ACTRESS |
RATING |
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James Foster |
Alexander Skarsgård |
 ½ |
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Gabi Bauer |
Mia Goth |
½ |
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Em Foster |
Cleopatra Coleman |
- |
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Alban Bauer |
Jalil Lespert |
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Jennifer |
Amanda Brugel |
- |
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Dr. Bob Modan |
John Ralston |
- |
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Charles |
Jeffrey Ricketts |
- |
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Bex |
Caroline Boulton |
- |
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Detective Thresh |
Thomas Kretschmann |
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Review
Brandon Cronenberg continues exploring
the same thematic line he has in all his three feature films thus
far: whether or not we are actually in control of our own bodies and
beings. Infinity Pool opens enticingly in a luxury resort in
an unnamed and exotic, but also totalitarian country, where James
(Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) meet and
agree to go on a day-trip with the seemingly libertine couple Gabi
and Alban (Mia Goth and Jalil Lespert). An accident on their way
back from this trip puts James in a predicament from which the only
way out is... some very Cronenbergian ideas. Unfortunately, soon
after this lush intro and the subsequent twist, the film lacks
drive, purpose and resolution. And Cronenberg seems to know nothing
else than to pour on worn arthouse tricks of visual feasting on
hallucinations and mutilations. The latter half and ending of
Infinity Pool is utterly underwhelming thematically and
aesthetically.
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