“Handwashing is Not Exactly Cinematic”: Carlo Mirabella-Davis on Swallow

While release dates are often determined months in advance for a slew of reasons solely related to a film’s individual success, it’s striking to see how some can be placed in indirect conversation with one another.

I recently revisited Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s debut feature Swallow just a few days after taking in Leigh Whannell’s feminist blockbuster adaptation of The Invisible Man.

Both are about women in emotionally abusive relationships that have grown increasingly difficult to break free from.

To complicate matters, each are pregnant with their lover’s child, and that the pregnancy is carried out to term is of utmost importance to […]

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