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To make ends meet and still be able to study besides work, Mary (Layla
Randle-Conde) has become a cam-girl, a girl who undresses and masturbates
for stranger in front of a camera for the exchange of money. She doesn't
like her job, but she doesn't really hate it, either - and weirdly enough,
the oneperson she can really talk to, who she thinks can understand her,
is one of her visitors on the site, Honourious. The rent is due, and
money is tight, especially since the last cheque from the camgirl-site
hasn't arrived yet. The landlord suggests another form of payment, and of
course, Mary at first turns him down, because that would make her a
prostitute, and she isn't that desperate ... at loeast not at first, but
when her money just doesn't arrive no matter how much she needs it, she
gives in to his demands, after all, it's just this one time. Anyways, this
is just one more thing she can never tell her friends, who are all better
off than her and don't know about financial hardships, but it's another
thing she can talk to Honourious about, primarily because he has seen
everything since she has left her webcam on. Even he's disappointed in
her, though ... Soon enough, Mary starts to notice there is someone else
in her apartment, someone who leaves her roses at random spots, and
someone who has drilled holes in her walls to better spy on her. She is
sure the intruder is her landlord, so she reports everything to the police
(though leaves out the part when she let him have sex with her), and when
the landlord cannot be found, has apparently made a getaway, everything
seems to fit. However, due to her stressful experiences, Mary is overcome
by guilt, so she phones in a confession to her priest she hasn't been in
touch with for a long time. After a short period of quiet, the intruder
makes himself known to Mary again ... Click
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Girl is a tight little thriller of the slasher variety that slims down
the genre to the max: Apart from a handful of scenes, the whole story is
confined to Mary's apartment - which somehow makes sense in context with
her profession as webgirl, who confines her viewers to whatever part of
her bed she chooses to allow them to see -, and there are no other
castmembers apart from Layla Randle-Conde - again in accordance with the
movie's topic. And despite being very limited in settings and cast, the
film works beautifully, on one hand because it's written with its
limitations in mind and makes full use of them, on the other hand because
it's directed in a very intimate yet suspenseful way, and on the third
hand (if there is such a thing) because it's nicely carried by Layla
Randle-Conde, who doesn't shy away from the more demanding aspects of her
role either. Recommended, actually.
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