NEW HAMPSHIRE FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL SELECTION
A young mother, contending with dyschronometria (affects ability to perceive time) and desperate to save money for her daughter’s future, takes a risky job from a mysterious woman with a dark past, and gets entangled in a web of revenge, deceit, and murder.
Shot in magnificent 16mm and co-written with the magnetic lead actress, Ariella Mastroianni, GAZER gazes fondly back on the masters of the ‘70s paranoid thriller while keeping itself grounded firmly in the cutting-edge of today’s independent filmmaking. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival.
Energized by Ariella Mastroianni’s disoriented and frazzled lead performance, it begins unnervingly and ends, like all such sagas should, with haunting bleakness. -The Daily Beast
Gazer is the kind of debut that should restore your lost faith in independent cinema. -IndieWire
Dead spouses, lapses in memory, mysterious strangers? Even the director would have to concede there is some Memento to Gazer, except the script – one he co-wrote with his star – opts for a detective plot on its own distinctive wavelength. -Spectrum Culture
A fractured, sensory puzzle of memory and fear. -RogerEbert.com
A mesmerizing and stylish noir thriller. -Inverse
‘R’ 114min
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