Sew Torn (2024)
2024
96 Minutes
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcome...
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Writer-director Freddy Macdonald has a good eye for directing, and his debut feature “Sew Torn” has a wonderfully suspenseful opening. Macdonald’s an excellent visual storyteller and despite some minor amateurish mistakes, this dark comedy thriller offers a unique and different take on a multi-layered story about the choices we make.
Barbara (Eve Connolly) owns a mobile sewing business where she makes frequent house calls. Her latest appointment goes from bad to worse when she accidentally stumbles upon two men (Calum Worthy, John Lynch) in a violent drug deal gone bad. In the heat of the moment, Barbara calculates that she has three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away.
The film presents these choices and shows the different potential outcomes of each decision. Barbara makes three choices, and Macdonald divides his film into three separate stories. The repercussions of each one is explored, and they almost always end very badly.
Some of the stories are stronger than the others. I’d say option three is the best, mainly because it includes a memorable dance sequence in a diner that is worth the wait.
There is some super clever stuff here that I’ve never seen before, especially Barbara’s MacGyver-like skills and the clever methods and solutions she thinks up that will help her escape and stay alive. After the first story, all of this is repeated in a too-similar fashion, so it loses its cool. The entire narrative offers variations of the same thread (snort), which does get repetitive by nature.
Despite some stumbles, “Sew Torn” is inventive and well done. It’s a nifty way to spin the narrative, but I wish its repetitive story wasn’t so drawn out.
By: Louisa Moore / SCREEN ZEALOTS0 member like this review.
