Berlin Review ‘Inside’: Willem Dafoe Delivers Tour De Force Performance In An Art Film All About Art – And Survival
deadline.comWillem Dafoe gets a dream role with Inside, a combo of art film in more ways than one, psychological thriller, heist movie, and survival tale all rolled into one in which Dafoe’s Nemo is center stage, alone, the entire time.
The Focus Features release is World Premiering today at the Berlin Film Festival and is the brainchild and narrative feature debut for Greek director Vasilis Katsoupis whose only previous feature was a documentary called My Friend Larry Gus.
Here with the help of screenwriter Ben Hopkins he takes a challenging leap forward creating a wrenching drama about an art thief who becomes trapped in a glass cage, in this case a New York City luxury apartment that if we didn’t know better could pass itself off as an art gallery, it walls and floors full of distinctive works of arts from paintings to sculptures, video to installations, and more.
It is a treasure trove for Nemo, who is traversing the high tech apartment, largely composed of glass and grey cement, a cold atmosphere of high class lifestyle, but now empty and a prime target for Nemo and those we hear instructing him on what pieces to gather up and take.
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