The work of visual artist Pascual Sisto is littered with ominous tedium. He infuses familiar settings with a quiet menace, invisible but inescapable. Sisto’s highly anticipated feature debut, “John and the Hole,” is no exception. The film, which was selected for the last year’s Cannes Film Festival and eventually premiered at Sundance in January, was deliberately conceived as a “contemporary fable,” according to Sisto. “I didn’t want it to be magical or taking place in this other world,” he explained. “It always needed to be anchored in our reality; everybody’s reality.”
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“John and the Hole” is a coming-of-age psychological thriller about an adolescent (Charlie Shotwell) who, seemingly unprompted, decides to hold his family captive in an unfinished bunker behind their suburban home. As noted in our review earlier this year, the movie’s “Twilight Zone” premise and mannered...
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