Facialist to the stars Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is convinced someone is out to get her. Poised to launch a new skincare line, she is caught in a cycle of sabotage, at the mercy of email hacks and a hot, client-stealing new esthetician who has set up shop across the road.
For director and writer Austin Peters, it is a story ripe with ominous undertones, told through an artificially bright and uncanny lens. Best known as a music video director – for artists including Haim, Charli XCX, Bastille, Major Lazer, Chvrches and Diplo – Peters brings his docu-drama style to the film, which zigzags around Los Angeles in a frenetic foretelling of Goldman’s collapse.
