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HOUSE BOUND

When Teasers last spoke to director Joe Wright in March 2020 about his one-set thriller charting the psychological fallout after a curtain-twitching New Yorker (Amy Adams) suspects her neighbour of murder, we were discussing the plight of the agoraphobic protagonist from a very different perspective.

Wright’s lushly lensed and existence within her own home was something to be viewed with an outsider’s interest. A year later, his project will debut on a streaming platform and now pandemic-wise audiences may have considerably more understanding of the cognitive dissonance, boredom and fear of the outside world suffered by Adams’ Anna.

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