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In Fabric

2018

Peter Strickland

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz, Julian Barratt ...

5.4

1,829

Horror. Fantasy "In Fabric" is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.

	Author	Review
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"[Strickland] somehow manages to transform and transcend what, in many hands, would feel unoriginal and derivative."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"There’s no reason a movie about a devil dress should work, and yet Strickland strikes the right tone, inviting laughter by taking it all so seriously."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Mordantly funny and unapologetically fetishistic (...) The sensual elements of 'In Fabric' are as hard to deny as the touch of velvet on your flesh"	POS
United Kingdom	Stephen Whitty Screendaily	"A perverse (and often perversely funny) genre film (...) As eclectic as the film’s tones are (...) the performance styles are just as far-ranging"	POS
United States	Ethan Vestby The Film Stage	"It’s easy to admire Strickland’s formal chops while still finding the film–or rather his throwback 'flourishes'–a little conceited."	POS
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"There are a few scares and a surprising amount of comedy but the film’s power is after the fact: it lingers in the memory and leaves a lasting impression (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"[Many sequences are] a masterclass in the uncanny: simultaneously frightening, banal and ludicrous (...) [Jean-Baptiste] is outstanding (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is just so singular, utterly unlike anything else around (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"'In Fabric' feels like Strickland at his most free and playful, drawing as much from the British sense of humour (...) as from Italian glamour (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lewis Knight Mirror	"Memorable imagery and symbols abound, so much so it’ll be an extremely hard film to forget (...) [It] confirms Peter Strickland as a major British talent (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"It always feels like homage rather than art in its own right. A fabulous, spooky thing just the same (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"I do love the endearing oddness of Peter Strickland’s films (...) An absolute delight to watch (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	James W. Anderson entertainment.ie	"'In Fabric' is the sort of film that douses your brain in lighter fluid and throws a match on it (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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