Back in late June 2007 at Frameline31, one of my favorite films was Sam Zalutsky’s first feature You Belong To Me, a suspenseful Polanski-style thriller with dark Hitchcockian overtones. As Pam Grady wrote for the Frameline program, this tale of gay obsession morphed into something quite unexpected as the protagonist Jeffrey (Daniel Sauli)—smitten with a one-night stand—stalks the fellow to his apartment building and rents a vacant unit in the building in hopes of getting closer to him. That’s creepy enough in itself; but, it soon becomes apparent that “the rot eating at his hardwood floors is symbolic of an evil infecting the entire address.” With classic indirection, the film starts off with one story and skillfully warps into another.
At Variety, Dennis Harvey noted that this “nifty little suspenser bordering on horror” put “a gay spin on creepy-apartment-building-entrapment scenarios a la Polanski’s The Tenant and Rosemary’s Baby,...
At Variety, Dennis Harvey noted that this “nifty little suspenser bordering on horror” put “a gay spin on creepy-apartment-building-entrapment scenarios a la Polanski’s The Tenant and Rosemary’s Baby,...
- 9/27/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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