An imaginative insight into an 18-year-old’s mind, Bertrand Bonello’s Berlin Film Festival Encounters strand entry Coma comes with a preface: it’s dedicated to his teenage daughter. It aims to both…
, who died tragically earlier this year. Bonello’s introductory comments about loss feel particularly poignant after the death of hisLouise Labeque is an engaging lead as “the teenager,” who’s shut in her bedroom with only the internet and her mind — both of which will go on to play tricks on her.
The vignettes often feel more like visualized anxiety than dreams, but they are certainly intriguing, especially when touching on recent history: doll Scott starts off in an argument with his girlfriend about another woman, but shifts to spouting the words of Donald Trump, as seen on Twitter. Climate change denial is a major concern, along with the prospect of sexual violence, infidelity, and the lack of liberty.
Bonello calls this film a “little gesture,” and in many ways it feels like an intimate story. But its wider resonance makes it a topical and quietly thought-provoking watch.
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