
Actress Katarina Zhu makes her feature-length directorial debut with “Bunnylovr,” going the micro-indie route with her examination of loneliness and the sex worker experience. Zhu also handles the screenplay as well as starring in the picture, giving her a level of creative control to help explore a strange cinematic space involving the intimate experiences of someone who deals with intimate experiences for a living. “Bunnylovr” doesn’t develop into anything more than study of bizarre tensions and longing, and Zhu doesn’t pump the feature up with dramatics, showing no interest in going bigger with the endeavor. Instead, she settles on a few scenes of human connection that carry unusual atmosphere at times, helping the effort achieve stretches of seduction and anxiety that offer Zhu as a promising young filmmaker to watch. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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