Magnus Von Horn’s ‘Sweat’ Proves Beauty Will Only Get You So Far [Cannes 2020 Review]
Pink as a pop of bubblegum and only a little more substantial, Magnus von Horn’s “Sweat,” one of the Cannes 2020 Official Selections that plays during this week’s Cannes Virtual Market is, despite all the cardio, a curiously low-blood-pressure affair. A scrupulously well-observed portrait of a young Polish fitness instructor successfully monetizing her massive social media following but wondering, underneath it all, what it’s all about, the film brilliantly sets up the targets of what could be a truly biting satire, or at least an urgently gripping, topical drama, only to leave them largely intact.