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10x10 (2018) dir. Suzi Ewing

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10x10   2018

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Outfall (Suzi Ewing, 2018)

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10x10 (Suzi Ewing, 2018) Lake Lanier Islands Bridge Buford, Georgia (USA) Bridge over the Lake Lanier Type: beam bridge.

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10x10 (Suzi Ewing, 2018) Lake Lanier Islands Bridge Buford, Georgia (USA) Bridge over the Lake Lanier Type: beam bridge.

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Win exhilarating thriller 10x10 Starring Luke Evans, Kelly Reilly On DVD

Win exhilarating thriller 10×10 Starring Luke Evans, Kelly Reilly On DVD

Surrounded by 4 walls of a padded cell: no light, no sound and no way out. How would you survive when kidnapped without a trace? From award-winning writer/director Noel Clarke (Brotherhood, Kidulthood), prepare for an exhilarating thriller that pits brains against brawn when 10×10 launches on DVD and Digital Download from 27th August 2018.

After meticulous planning and preparation, Lewis (Luke…

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2018) - #117: 10x10 (2018) - dir. Suzi Ewing (52 Films by Women 2018: #29)

I can’t say that 10x10 is the worst movie of 2018, and yet it left me with an unmistakably sour feeling in the pit of my stomach, much like when I saw David Slade’s Hard Candy and felt the distinct urge to heave. Similar to that depressing drama starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, 10x10 tells a tale steeped in kidnapping, retribution and bloody struggles for survival.

In a narrative that reminds me somewhat of the novel The Collector by John Fowles, 10x10′s action kicks off immediately as we watch Lewis (Luke Evans) plan and execute the abduction of Cathy Noland (Kelly Reilly) from the parking lot of her local yoga class. Why? Well, it takes about an hour for us to find out, which is frustrating in a film that runs 88 minutes. Without divulging the big twist, suffice it to say Cathy and Lewis are connected by a tragedy in Lewis’s past involving his late wife, Alana (Olivia Chenery). (In a weird hiccup, Lewis also has a housekeeper named Alondra, which is way too similar to his wife’s name. Or is it just me who’s bothered by that?)

Given that the film was penned by Noel Clarke, who was so wonderful as Mickey Smith on “Doctor Who,” I expected at least a few dashes of charm and humor in the script. Instead, 10x10 is a completely grim exercise, forcing us to wonder why we should want to see a man torment a woman in a soundproof hidden chamber of his house (which is, just like in Hard Candy, an elegant residence designed with a modern, minimalist sensibility and (in)conveniently located far from the nearest town. Is Suzi Ewing’s violent directorial debut an act of feminist filmmaking simply because she is a woman? No, of course not. Despite being predicated on several attempted fights to the death, 10x10 is a movie where neither character wins; even when it seems as though good may prevail over evil, the purpose appears to be moot because it’s hard to root for anyone in this film. As Norma Bates remarked in Psycho: “We’re all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.“ In 10x10′s case, the private trap is both a room of that size and also the relentless horrors of trauma and loss.

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10x10 (2018)

Just a few days from opening her new business, Cathy's (Kelly Reilly) fresh start is interrupted when she is attacked, kidnapped and locked in a room. She assumes the kidnapper (Luke Evans) wants her body or her life, but he is after something simpler…her name.

Directed by:   Suzi Ewing

Starring:   Luke Evans, Kelly Reilly

Release date:   April 13, 2018