Dir: Steven Soderbergh. Starring: Zoë Kravitz, Betsy Brantley, Rita Wilson, India de Beaufort, Emily Kuroda, Byron Bowers. 15, 87 minutes.
Is it any surprise that Steven Soderbergh has made the best film so far about the Covid-19 pandemic? He’d already predicted it, in an odd sort of way – his 2011 thriller Contagion neatly laid out a blueprint for the past two years, with talk of “social distancing” and extensive hand-washing. His latest, Kimi, offers a second shot of synchronicity. It’s a thriller conceived before the pandemic which now, with a few alterations, has tapped into something unnervingly universal – being at once connected to and isolated from the world.
