To want to be one with the other is at once an impossibly romantic proposition and an utterly frightening one. In his feature film debut “Else,” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, director Thibault Emin flirts with the romcom trappings of the former but soon plunges headfirst into the disorienting possibilities of the latter. Anchored by the tale of a budding couple facing an increasingly inescapable threat from the outside world, the film mostly takes place in an apartment that’s equal parts safe haven and prison cell. A tad too heady but quite visually arresting, Emin’s dream-turn-nightmare body horror film is as much a lockdown pandemic fable as
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