Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Teresa Palmer plays an Australian backpacker in Berlin who meets a school teacher and has a night of passion with him then realises she's trapped in his out of the way apartment and basically his captive.
An interesting piece which has a slow build up of tension along with good performances from Palmer and Max Riemelt as her captor. Unfortunately following a few grisly moments and several others that show Palmer being physically dominated it kind of peters out in a climax that's both pretty forgettable and ultimately underwhelming.
Set in what would have been East Berlin this generates the same gloomy atmosphere as Żuławski's Possession (1981)
Pet (2016) was a far more cutting edge film about male domination than this.
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