As they get friskier and more suggestive with Evan, he genuinely tries his best to be a gentleman and remain loyal-scooching over to a different chair, or going out of his way to compliment his wife’s sculptures. The playful pals snuggle up in fluffy, white robes while waiting for their clothes to dry and the car service to arrive (which takes an estimated 45 minutes, conveniently).
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The two friends insist innocently that the cab dropped them off in the wrong spot on the way to a party, and now they’re lost, so could they please come in and use the phone? And maybe take off their clothes and throw them in the dryer? As Julianne Moore says so drolly in “ The Big Lebowski” while showing Jeff Bridges the porno movie “Logjammin’”: “Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here.”Īnd it does go there-sort of-in time.
Standing on his front porch, giggling and dripping in itty-bitty clothing, are the brunette Genesis ( Lorenza Izzo, Roth’s real-life wife) and blonde Bel ( Ana de Armas), who must be half his age. But then, there’s a knock at the door on the one night there happens to be a torrential downpour in drought-stricken Southern California. With the wife and kids away on a beach trip, Evan uses the weekend to catch up on a project, enjoy some red wine, maybe smoke a little pot and listen to his treasured vinyl on the turntable. The execution never feels quite so focused, however. At first, it's as if Roth and co-writers Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amadeo are toying with the notion of domestic bliss, only to hold it up to the light, examine it and crush it to pieces later on. There almost seems to be an intentional awkwardness to these early interactions between Evan and his family they’re too happy and perfect, like folks you’d see forced together in a catalog. Clearly, this is an idyllic place-which the presence of Evan’s flirty, artist wife ( Ignacia Allamand) and adorable son and daughter confirms. Roth sets the mood rather elegantly off the top, with long, gliding camerawork over the Hollywood sign, through Malibu canyons and down serene, suburban streets until he winds up at Evan’s front door. He stars as Evan, an architect living in a coolly sprawling minimalist home filled with colorful, modern art in the hills outside Los Angeles. As a piece of social satire, “Knock Knock” winds up being not just toothless but anticlimactic.īut it does feature Keanu Reeves, who’s game for all the craziness that comes his way in the leading role.
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Roth skillfully builds tension until the moment when everything snaps and goes insane, followed by a series of shrill and repetitive scenes of increasing torture and destruction, all of which leads to The Big Reveal of what inspired these vicious games.
His intention, he says in the film’s press notes, was to demonstrate how much more quickly we experience everything in the social media age-both the delights and the torments-and how the rules of civilized society no longer seem to apply.īut he makes his point far clearer in the notes than he does in the movie itself. (The two actresses who were its stars, Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp, get producing credit here while Camp appears in a brief supporting role as a nosy friend).
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Roth’s film, which he directed and co-wrote, is an update of a trashy little exploitation flick called “Death Game” from 1977.
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