7/10
Cobb gives a remarkable debut peformance as well as Schoenberg's first feature film - a bit more desired but the effect is genuinely felt in the pains of loneliness.
29 April 2022
WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2022) **1/2 Anna Cobb, Michael J. Rogers. Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun's slow burn debut about a lonely horror film fan, teenager named Casey(newcomer Cobb - whose heart-shaped ethereal face resembles a cross between Jessica Harper and Jane Adams - in a remarkable performance) who embarks upon a unique journey via an Internet website which offers a change in its participants which may or may not have deadly consequences. Eerie in its stillness the atmosphere is perfectly captured of the angst and anomie of a young woman trying to find out for herself what life can promise mixed with dread is definitely engrossing but there seems to be less is more in the outcome. Rogers, as a stranger befriending Cobb, borderlines genuine compassion with unsettling creepiness.
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