Even with a blistering performance from Robin Wright Penn as a TV executive with serious mental stability issues, Jeff Stanzler's sophomore effort is a disturbing New York story destined to encounter resistance for several reasons. [...] again, any film these days that has the ability to trigger a viewer reaction other than sighs of indifference deserves to generate some distributor attention, and this Independent Digital Entertainment production (the company's previous output includes "Pieces of April" and "November"), should land an outfit willing to take the bait. Kechiche brings an empathetic, low-key charisma to his role, Wright Penn pulls off the kind of increasingly off-kilter but masterfully controlled performance that would send Glenn Close's "Fatal Attraction" psycho and Jennifer Jason Leigh's "Single White Female" sicko cowering in a corner.

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