Review of Never Here (2017) by Frances H — 19 Jun 2018
A rather fascinating film about invasion of another's life and then having the tables turned. Miranda is an "installation" artist, who spys, without permission to do so, on the life of a man whose cellphone she finds, invading his privacy and every facet of his life, as though she has the right to take it over and make it public to all.
The object of her art, whom she never sees as a private person with the right to that privacy, tries to commit suicide because his life is no longer his. And then, her private life is no longer her own.
Her private space, her relationship with her dog, her secret affair are all out of her control, as others claim the right to interfere, just as she claimed the right to interfere in her subject's life.
Her affair, her deception to the police to keep her secret lover secret, are exposed and one by one her dog and both of her lovers are taken away from her. She becomes obsessed with a man she thinks is interring in her life, and invades HIS space, but we never find out if she is right or wrong.
In the end, her fears have put her on the outside of her own life, until even her private space is gone, and it is as if she was "never here.".
This review of Never Here (2017) was written by Frances H on 19 Jun 2018.
Never Here has generally received mixed reviews.
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