Presence, Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh’s directorial credits include Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, and Magic Mike. His latest, Presence, is a supernatural thriller shot entirely in the first-person perspective using a Sony Alpha 9 III mirrorless camera.
Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Steven Soderbergh has just about done it all—including, now, made a horror film. Presence is a ghost story like no other, assuming the first-person perspective of a specter that haunts a suburban clan that’s moved into its residence.
Presence holds its audience close with a nifty conceit in which Soderbergh is the eyes and ears of those watching and of his cast. May the adventurous, restless filmmaker keep on tinkering
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“Presence” is a beautifully executed vision of a rather mediocre script. What makes it interesting is the POV “gimmick,” which Soderbergh demonstrates as a legitimate mode of cinematic storytelling. His camera movements take on such a human quality that we become emotionally connected to it as another character in the story.
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