![]() Julia can't take it anymore and sneaks behind one of the store's employees-only doors where she asks a clerk for the rear exit. The two play a game of cat and mouse across the aisles. She notices the same man enter the store. When Julia enters a supermarket, the ex-smoker puts a couple packs of cigarettes in her basket. Deeply uncomfortable, she gets up and exits the theatre. He leans forward and she can literally feel him breathing down her neck. ![]() When Julia saunters into a repertory cinema where Donen's Charade (1963) is playing, she spots a man in one of the back rows move up and sit directly behind her. Is this person just peering outside or staring at her? She nearly always sees a figure standing in a window opposite her unit. Francis and Julia's apartment has very tall and large windows so she spends a lot of her time at home gazing across the other high rise. But unfortunately, Julia doesn't really have anything to do during the day so occupies her time wandering around town. Fortunately, Julia's next-door neighbor Irina (Mădălina Anea) speaks fluent English and invites her over for wine during a relaxing evening. Francis's colleagues don't speak much English so Julia wonders what they're all saying when she hosts them for dinner one night. She and Francis are leasing a spacious apartment where she's alone all day and for most of the evening. Julia had tried becoming a movie actress but that hasn't worked out for her so far. Francis has received a promotion in his marketing position at an ad company which has required him to relocate to a Bucharest office. Julia (Maika Monroe of The Guest and It Follows) is accompanying her Romanian-American husband Francis (Karl Glusman) to Bucharest after the couple lived together in New York. Stephen Larson, October 7, 2022įeelings of isolation and disconnect of living in a foreign country are given chilling and effective treatment in Chloe Okuno's debut feature Watcher (2022).
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