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The film puts the audience face to face with a horrifying self-emulation that seems borne out of our society's toxic pressures to conform to gender and beauty norms.

De Van writes, directs, and stars as Esther, an altogether ordinary woman whose descent into masochism and self-mutilation is portrayed with almost unbearable restraint in this assured debut. What's bracing about de Van's film is how Esther's emerging psychosis is never overtly foreshadowed in any meaningful way—Haneke's THE PIANO TEACHER it is not. She's relatable to a fault...