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'Knocking': Film Review | Sundance 2021

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When Molly, the troubled but dogged protagonist of Knocking, moves into her new apartment, she notices the word "Help" scrawled high on the elevator wall.

Whether this is a random bit of graffiti or a sign of a particular hyperawareness on Molly's part — a sensitivity to cries of anguish — goes to the heart of this smart, disquieting film.

Working from Emma Broström's adaptation of a novel by Johan Theorin, first-time feature director Frida Kempff embraces and revamps genre tropes, casting them in a trenchant feminist light and a character-specific poignancy.

The action unfolds entirely through Molly's perspective, and Cecilia Miloccco's performance, by turns guarded and explosive, is gripping from first scene to last.

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