Presence

Exercice de style bluffant, adoptant le point de vue du fantôme. Ensemble moins effrayant qu'impressionnant. Mise en scène experte. Distribution sans faille.

You want the movie to add up to something, but what it adds up to is another half-diverting, half-satisfying Soderbergh bauble, only this time he's the ghost in the machine.

Each time we are thrown into something new, the film teases out moments of humor built around the family's dysfunction just as it draws out a growing feeling that something bad is coming.

This is an enormously satisfying watch for haunted house movie fans, favoring sustained anxiety over big scares and practical effects over digital trickery.

As haunted house stories go, Presence is more interested in lurking dread than bloody jump scares, slowly ratcheting up the tension with long, uninterrupted takes.