Synopsis
Open up.
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Swallow
2019 Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Cast
Director
Producers
Mollye Asher Mynette Louie Adam Kersh Frédéric Fiore Carole Baraton Olivia Crist Gregory Horoupian Lauren Andrade
Writer
Casting
Editor
Cinematography
Assistant Directors
Executive Producers
Joe Wright Haley Bennett Eric Tavitian Sam Bisbee David Boies III Julie Parker Benello Pierre Mazars Yohann Comte Constantin Briest David Stone Katy Drake Bettner
Lighting
Additional Photography
Production Design
Set Decoration
Visual Effects
Composer
Sound
Costume Design
Makeup
Hairstyling
Studios
Countries
Language
Alternative Titles
Saplantı, Глотай, Nyelés, Κατάποση, Niedosyt, Devorar, 스왈로우, 吞咽, לבלוע, 吞噬, Ковтай, Nuốt Chửng, Nuryk, Norij to, 吞上癮, Swallow スワロウ
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Releases by Date
Premiere
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USA
Tribeca Film Festival
13 Jun 2019
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USA
Provincetown International Film Festival
07 Sep 2019
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France
Deauville Film Festival
04 Oct 2019
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Italy
Milano Film Festival
15 Nov 2019
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Ireland18
Cork International Film Festival
08 Mar 2020
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Spain18
Americana Film Fest 2020
09 Oct 2020
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Spain18
Sitges Film Festival
Theatrical limited
06 Mar 2020
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USAR
Theatrical
15 Jan 2020
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FranceU
19 Mar 2020
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Hungary18
03 Jul 2020
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South Korea15
27 Jan 2022
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PortugalM/14
Digital
06 Mar 2020
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USA
16 Mar 2020
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Ireland18
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UK18
05 Apr 2020
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Hungary18
09 Feb 2021
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Spain18
Physical
04 Aug 2020
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USAR
26 Nov 2020
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Germany16
Releases by Country
France
07 Sep 2019
- Premiere Deauville Film Festival
15 Jan 2020
- TheatricalU
Germany
26 Nov 2020
- Physical16
Hungary
19 Mar 2020
- Theatrical18
05 Apr 2020
- Digital18 Vimeo
Ireland
15 Nov 2019
- Premiere18 Cork International Film Festival
16 Mar 2020
- Digital18
Italy
04 Oct 2019
- Premiere Milano Film Festival
Portugal
27 Jan 2022
- TheatricalM/14
South Korea
03 Jul 2020
- Theatrical15
Spain
08 Mar 2020
- Premiere18 Americana Film Fest 2020
09 Oct 2020
- Premiere18 Sitges Film Festival
09 Feb 2021
- Digital18 Movistar+
UK
16 Mar 2020
- Digital18
USA
28 Apr 2019
- Premiere Tribeca Film Festival
13 Jun 2019
- Premiere Provincetown International Film Festival
06 Mar 2020
- Theatrical limitedR
06 Mar 2020
- Digital
04 Aug 2020
- PhysicalR DVD, Blu-ray
Popular reviews
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There isn't a single moment of this movie when I wasn't deeply uncomfortable. Highly recommended.
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sitting on a motel floor munching on some dirt & watching tv. that’s some real hot girl shit.
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Fantastic debut by Carlo Mirabella-Davis. With both writing and directing, he really understands how to keep an audience enrapt. The film goes to unexpected places and tackles some heavy subjects. I woke up this morning thinking about it.
And honestly, I can't remember cringing so hard while watching a film. And I'm referring to the good cringe. I would say that the squeamish should beware however anybody would be squeamish when it comes to these some of these scenes.
Halley Bennet truly owns this role. Now I'm a fan.
Beautifully shot by Katelin Arizmendi (Cam) on Arri Amira with Zeiss Master Prime Lenses and color graded by Sam Daley (Florida Project).
This will be on my top ten of 2020. Guaranteed.
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Women be eating!!!!
(Eating away at their own bodily autonomy by internalizing the roles being projected on them.)
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true unhappiness cannot be fully repressed. it physically manifests, no matter how glossy the plasticine smile, how pristine the glass house. sometimes you need tangible proof that your pain isn’t just in your head.
a hybrid of domestic horror and psychological drama, as well as an ode to the sacred privacy of bathrooms, Swallow centers on newlywed and newly pregnant housewife Hunter (haley bennett). she lives in an immaculate upstate new york estate with her boring rich husband, where she’s stifled by her overbearing in-laws and constant domestic duties. despite the fact that she has everything society tells her she should want, she’s deeply unfulfilled. this second-wave “problem that has no name” eventually transforms into something that does: pica, an…
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I hated her husband within the first two minutes of this, and then he kept getting worse. Take care of your own ties, you lazy fuck.
Instead of eating it she should have shoved that pushpin in his dick. And she should have shoved another pushpin in the dick of that dude guilting women into hugging him. What the hell was that?!
It's a beautifully shot movie and Haley Bennett delivered a wonderful performance here, she should be in more movies!
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“I’ve dealt with it.”
“How have you dealt with it?”
“I’ve thought about it a lot.”📌
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There’s something fitting about the fact that Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ “Swallow” — a provocative and frequently brilliant thriller about the patriarchal control over female bodies — is set in a purgatorial stretch of upstate New York that’s roughly equidistant from both Jeanne Dielman’s home at 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, and the arid San Fernando Valley that almost suffocates Carol White to death in “Safe.” While he might not possess Chantal Akerman’s visionary patience, or exhibit Todd Haynes’ singular talent for mining horror from metaphor, Mirabella-Davis has crafted a sharp and surprising modern fable around a woman whose environment has been weaponized against her since birth.
The submissive but subtly demented housewife of a standard-issue Patrick Bateman wannabe (Austin Stowell), Hunter…
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