Being locked up in a flat and slowly falling into madness? Since the Corona pandemic, I’m sure many of us can relate to that. However, Willem Dafoe has to go through this experience in the feature film “Inside” for completely different reasons…
For Nemo (Willem Dafoe), the act has gone all silly. Although no one can hold a candle to him in his field, the burglar who specialises in art theft is locked up in a luxurious penthouse. Together with his accomplice, he wanted to rob a renowned collector of his priceless works. But the flat’s sophisticated security system put a spanner in the works. All exits and entrances are locked before the system itself breaks down.
From now on, Nemo is on his own. After initial hopes that his accomplices might help him, he waits for security guards to come and rescue him from his situation. But nothing happens. Not only does the situation become more and more hopeless, but Nemo himself visibly falls into madness. Caught between the works of art he was supposed to steal, the masterful thief desperately searches for a way to escape from this labyrinth. But the air is getting thinner and thinner…
WILLEM DAFOE IN HIS ELEMENT
The first trailer for “Inside” already makes it clear that we can once again look forward to a terrific performance by Willem Dafoe. The highly sought-after actor, who is both in the blockbuster business (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”) and in the arthouse business (“Siberia”), once again does what he probably does best in “Inside”: slowly going crazy.
“Inside” will premiere at the Berlinale and then be released nationwide on 16 March 2023.
The director of “Inside” is the Greek Vasilis Katsoupis, who has directed only his second feature film after “My Friend Larry Gus” and has previously worked more in the music video field. The screenplay was written by Ben Hopkins, who wrote the award-winning scripts for “In Search Of Monsters”, “Simon Magus” and “Pazar – The Market”, but who has also been active on the director’s post there. The choice of cinematographer is also interesting, because Steve Annis is quite capable of conveying atmospheric feelings through his images – as he proved most recently with “The Colour From Outer Space”.
Here you can also watch the trailer in the original version, in which, in contrast to the official German cinema trailer, there is also speech.
