[FILM]
MISSING
The new seekers: June (Storm Reid) and Veena (Megan Suri) on the hunt.
★★★★ OUT 24 FEBRUARY / CERT 15 111 MINS
DIRECTORS Will Merrick, Nick Johnson
CAST Storm Reid, Nia Long, Ken Leung, Joaquim de Almeida, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney
PLOT Single mum Grace (Long) and her new boyfriend Kevin (Leung) go on vacation to Colombia, leaving Grace’s teenage daughter June (Reid) home alone. When the couple suddenly go missing, June must use all the online tools at her disposal to track them down — uncovering unexpected secrets along the way.
RELEASED IN 2018, Searching seemed the natural cinematic response to a generation of people raised and nourished by screens. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty, it practically invented a cinematic language, a subgenre that producer Timur Bekmambetov labelled ‘screenlife’ — where the entirety of the onscreen action takes place within the confines of a computer or phone browser window, the drama playing out in FaceTime calls, texts, and frantic Google searches — the ‘mise-en-screen’, if you will. It was an ingenious, original and very of-its-time thriller.