Margaret (Astrid Ovalles) has killed three people - her husband and his
two lovers -, and with her own hands, too. She has since been arrested,
confessed to everything, and is now being interviewed/evaluated by someone
in charge, most likely a psychiatrist (Christian Thom) - but Margaret's
interviewer soon loses his objective distance and gets obsessed with her
hands, and with the damage they could do, and actually did, too. Margaret
senses this attraction and is drawn to her interviewer likewise - but when
she reveals her boobs, he pushes her away. Turns out he is drawn to her
hands exclusively, and he wants to feel them on his body before too long -
but he might get more than he was asking for ... Hand Job
is a very interesting and unusual little movie: Not only does it present
the audience with some weird powerplay carried by some tense dialogue, but
its approach of keeping the camera invariably on the hands of Margaret
without ever showing either protagonist's face is sure to make this
special. And these hands really perform on their own, without overdoing it
gesticulating or anything, they do give Margaret a personality - and are
of course instrumental in the film's unexpected finale. In all, Hand
Job might be experimental in approach and might not be for everyone -
but those who are into something unusual will no doubt agree the
experiment was a wholly successful one.
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