If you think you’ve seen how horrible the wealthy can be at ritzy resorts by watching The White Lotus you still will be unprepared when you experience Brandon Cronenberg’s bizarre, twisted, hallucinatory- Infinity Pool.
Alexander Skarsgard plays James Foster, an author of one book that wasn’t critically well received or sold well. He is married to the wealthy and beautiful Em (Cleopatra Coleman), the daughter of his publisher, and they are booked into a fabulous, exclusive resort in the poor and violent country of Lil Tolqa.
They meet the seductive Gabi (Mia Goth) and her sleazy architect husband Alban (Jalil Lespert) and a joyride and picnic at a gorgeous, deserted beach outside the gated resort ends in tragedy and arrest.
But they discover from the police chief (Thomas Ketschmann) that the country has a unique punishment system for the wealthy tourists. They can create a clone of themselves (for a price) and that clone can be meted out justice by members of the victim’s families.
Em is horrified by the experience and flees from the resort but James’s passport goes missing and he stays, drawn into the decadent world of Gabi, her husband, and their sick friends who have also experienced this clone justice and gleefully refer to themselves as “zombies.” Before long they are all wildly drinking, doing native aphrodisiac drugs and committing wild bursts of lawlessness, sucking James deeper and deeper into their nightmare.
Mia Goth (who blew my mind with her performances in Ti West’s X and Pearl) brilliantly plays a real vicious little vixen and Skarsgard is sensational as the gloomy writer who came on vacation for inspiration for a new book and gets more than he bargained for in this trippy, terrific shocker.
Well! That looks really fun!