Film Review – Club Zero

With “Club Zero,” screenwriters Geraldine Bajard and Jessica Hausner (who also directs, last seen with 2019’s “Little Joe”) take on the ways of eating disorders and cults, along with a few other topics that also pertain to certain power plays people face every day. It’s a psychological study of submission involving a small number of private school students and their introduction to “conscious eating” via the new teacher in town, with such elevated thinking causing trouble for all. Hausner makes a peculiar chiller here, which recalls the work of director Yorgos Lanthimos and his strange ways with tone and terror. Unease takes its time to build in the movie, but “Club Zero” has an original take on influence and control, and it does very well with its large cast. This includes star Mia Wasikowska, who brings an unnerving sense of stillness to the picture, providing a central figure of concern the material enjoys developing. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com