Seattle International Film Festival 2025: Film #27
Crazy Rich Jordanians, this certainly isn't. And I was really with this film until the scene in the kitchen: wish it didn't, to quote the film itself, "go all Netflix" there. Otherwise, very well observed, even down to the awful acoustics of the family's house.
Synopsis: Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign world, in a palace behind walls and cut off from the internet, where the sisters are under surveillance around the clock. They have no interest in learning to box. So why has Sarah been brought here?