Reality

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Reality, 25 år gammel og med mange års erfaring som oversetter i det amerikanske luftvåpenet, kommer hjem fra en handletur til to ukjente menn utenfor huset hennes. De er FBI-agenter med ordre om å ransake hennes hus og eiendeler, mens hun selv skal avhøres. Dette er utgangspunktet for den sanne fortellingen Reality ønsker å formidle; en som sakte, men sikkert, kommer til syne gjennom samtalen.

Reality er et intimt og intenst dokudrama om varsleren Reality Winner. Det er en filmatisering av regissør Tina Satters skuespill Is This a Room? (2019), som i likhet med filmen henter dialogen direkte fra FBIs opptak av det faktiske avhøret med Winner. Sydney Sweeney, kjent blant annet fra TV-seriene Euphoria (2019-) og The White Lotus (2021-), spiller hovedrollen.

In its elegant simplicity, its formal daring and superbly subtle and controlled performances, Tina Satter’s movie is surely one of the best at the Berlin film festival: an eerily gripping true-life drama concerning people who look like elaborately reanimated, hyperreal ghosts from the past.

- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian -

Tina Satter (f. 1974) er en amerikansk manusforfatter og regissør innenfor teater og film. Hun står bak teaterkompaniet Half Straddle i New York, som ble grunnlagt i 2008. I 2020 fikk hun en Obie-pris for ideen bak og regien av skuespillet som Is This a Room? (2019). Samme år mottok hun Guggenheim-stipendet.

How does one strike a balance between morality and legality? Theater director Tina Satter makes an elegant and unsettling film debut with this low-key, yet striking, docudrama about the American whistleblower Reality Winner.

Reality, 25 years old yet with several years of experience as a translator in the US Air Force, returns home after a grocery trip to find two strangers outside her house. They identify themselves as FBI agents, carrying a search warrant for her home and belongings, while she herself is to be questioned. These are the seeds of the true story Reality tells, one that slowly yet surely reveals itself as the interrogation runs its course.

Reality is an intimate and intense docudrama about whistleblower Reality Winner. It is a film adaptation of director Tina Satter’s play Is This a Room? (2019), which, along with the film, takes its dialogue straight from the FBI interrogation tape of Winner’s questioning. Sydney Sweeney, known from the TV shows Euphoria (2019-) and The White Lotus (2021-), stars.

Tina Satter (b. 1974) is an American writer and director of film and theatre. She runs the New York-based theatre company Half Straddle, which she founded in 2008. In 2020, she received a Special Obie Citation for conceiving and directing Is This a Room? (2019). Later the same year, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

//Jenny Lund // Oslo Pix