By Design is a bizarre, absurd and wild film on a woman who exchanges bodies with a chair – Sundance Review

A woman exchanges bodies with a chair. This is the movie. And somehow, it is even stranger than it seems. Every moment of By Design It is soaked in a disturbing and off-kilter energy that is difficult to shake.

I spent most of the film in a state of amazement, murmuring for myself, “What the hell am I watching?” But at the same time, I couldn’t look away. It is absurd, ridiculous and fully engaged in its strangeness.

The story follows Camille (Juliette Lewis), a woman whose existence is defined by the people around her who use her as an emotional sponge. When it becomes obsessed with a chair that cannot afford, something inexplicable happens: it becomes the chair. And strangely, all around her seem to prefer it that way.

The writer and director of the film, Amanda KramerHe rests on the surreal with unusual dialogues, embarrassing performances and a dream atmosphere that makes everything feel alone … wrong.

The performances, in particular Lewis e Mamoudou Achie As a pianist who unconsciously inherits the new form of Camille, he tilts into the strange rhythm, making every strange and hypnotic interaction feel.

While the story takes place, it becomes only stranger. It is an abstract meditation on the identity, purpose and tendency of society to enhance objects more than people, although sometimes it seems only nonsense.

Some moments are stimulating, others hilarious and others simply disconcerting. The film does not seem particularly worried about making sense, but I imagine that it is part of its charm.

He throws Bonkers’ ideas at each turn, leaving you to decide if you are looking at something deeply deep or simply completely ridiculous.

In the end, I had no idea what I should have removed By Designin addition to pure experience. It is the type of movie that you look only to be able to talk about how crazy it is.