Swedish director Magnus von Horn’s film, set in Warsaw, is sharp, perceptive, and ultimately ruthless when it comes to life under the yoke of social media. It’s also smart enough never to regress into shallow, misogynistic finger-pointing. Sweat isn’t a lazy diatribe against Gen Z or millennial narcissism – it positions both Sylvia and her followers as the ultimate victims of the disassociation, commodification and depersonalisation that the internet itself causes.
Clarisse Loughrey
giugno 25, 2021