Everyone involved in this has talent. The cast is attractive and committed, the cinematography is slick, the direction is mostly interesting,and the art direction very good. The problem is it's too aware of its own artiness and influences and that makes the pace sluggish. Too many scenes slowly (very slowly) build tension without a payoff--so you start to get impatient. But there is enough good here to recommend it...especially cinephiles with a taste for things like Aronofsky;s "Black Swan" and Polanski's "Repulsion."