Pets ★★★½
"You can't possess me. I'm a woman, not an animal!"
This is an interesting film, probably one more intelligent that it may first appear. It could be a sleazy sexploitation flick, but it's clear that Raphael Nussbaum, the director and co-writer who is working from a play by Richard Reich, has something to say about sexual politics and power dynamics in relationships and society.
It's amazing to watch this film and think that it was a play – I've no idea how it would work on this stage, but it definitely does as a film, and as a thoughtful and very watchable movie in which I am very pleased 88 Films have released and I'll make sure to watch it again in the future.