‘Presence’: Steven Soderbergh Does His Version of a Haunted House Movie at Sundance

BUMP IN THE NIGHT

Soderbergh returns to the Sundance Film Festival 35 years after his game-changing “sex, lies, and videotape.” This time, he’s bringing a ghost.

Photo still from "Presence"
Courtesy of Sundance Institute

PARK CITY, Utah—Steven Soderbergh never met a genre on which he didn’t want to experiment, and with Presence, he upends the conventions of the haunted house movie by telling his tale through the eyes of an unseen—and, until the end, unidentified—spirit.

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