REVIEW: Profile [2021]

All I want is a Kalashnikov. It was only a matter of time before Timur Bekmambetov took the plunge and directed his own entry within the cinematic style he coined (and anecdotally created) as “Screenlife.” Even if we forget how Brian De Palma played with YouTube-style vignettes in Redacted circa 2007, the short film Noah debuted at TIFF a year before Unfriended at Fantasia, and Nacho Vigalondo‘s Open Windows hit SXSW a few months before the latter too, the filmmaker’s claim always remained a bit far-fetched simply because the films…

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