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‘Saccharine’ Review: A Grisly Body-Image Body Horror for the Age of Weight Loss Meds
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Variety
Real-life horror of one’s own body is the most insidious kind of body horror at play here, though James’ film offers a measure of the gorily fantastical stuff too.
Sure enough, the pounds start falling off, at a rate that concerns the increasingly interested Alanya.
That “Bertha” is only visible to Hana in spoons and other such concave reflective surfaces is a neat, witty visual touch.
“Saccharine,” for its part, does much to deglamorize its gaze, beginning with the scuzzy lighting and seasick palette of DP Charlie Sarroff’s lensing.
It all amounts to a kind of anti-ASMR — if anything, you leave “Saccharine” craving some sensory underload.