Patty Lu

Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party in her den. Her family shares a Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. As she purges this parasite, we move inside her body and experience this wildness as a feverish dance.The parasite ejects us back into the kitchen of another woman, alone eating breakfast as she looks at a happy couple pictured on the back of her cereal box. It’s Sam and Carlson. What's beneath a picture? A dream within a dream. Horror meets dance, SWALLOWED suggests a complex truth to motherhood and domesticity. (The Criterion Channel)

大学院で人間の瞳について研究している青年イアンは、仮装パーティで出会った女性ソフィに惹かれ、写真に写った仮面の奥の瞳だけを手がかりに彼女を探し出す。2人は恋に落ち結婚を決めるが、ある悲劇が彼らを襲う。数年後、研究者として成功を収めたイアンは、同僚の女性カレンから瞳に関する衝撃的な事実を告げられる。