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Haley Bennett is heartbreaking and fierce in ‘Swallow’

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Last week, “The Invisible Man” served up a potent meditation on domestic abuse, then diluted it with campy scares. The quieter “Swallow” follows with a different body horror scenario: What happens when a woman’s trauma is directed inward?

Haley Bennett (“The Girl on the Train”) stars as Hunter, newly married to an arrogant, wealthy businessman (Austin Stowell) — literally named Richie! — and battling the loneliness of being a housewife.

Soon, Hunter discovers, she’ll be a mother, too. She finds a strange solace, as she cleans their cavernous home, in swallowing objects of increasingly alarming shapes and sizes.

The disorder, called pica, isn’t a widely relatable one, and it’s hard to watch. But our visceral discomfort echoes Hunter’s

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