Dual Review: Karen Gillan Tries To Kill Her Double In Riley Stearns’ Dark Comedy [Sundance 2022]

Riley Stearns, the filmmaker behind 2014’s “Faults” and 2019’s “The Art of Self-Defense,” returns to Sundance with “Dual,” an odd dark comedy which sits comfortably in the tonally unique corner of cinema Stearns has carved out for himself.

In the director’s movies, life is not something to be celebrated, but a punishment to be endured; the joke at the center of “Dual” is that characters will fight each other to the death in order to secure the misery of experiencing an average existence.Sarah (Karen Gillan) is sick.

She might have a bit of a drinking problem, she…The post Dual Review: Karen Gillan Tries to Kill Her Double in Riley Stearns’ Dark Comedy [Sundance 2022] appeared first on /Film.

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