The Payne family seems like a perfect family, and when their youngest daughter Chloe's life is turned upside down by a tragic event, they decide to move to a new house outside the city to start over. Soon, however, Chloe notices something amiss in her room; initially, the family doesn't believe her, but they change their minds when the signs become impossible to ignore. As their daily reality begins to crumble and tensions escalate, a disturbing presence watches and influences them, silent but ever closer.
"Soderbergh is one of the few filmmakers left who believes, fortunately, that cinema is above all a possibility, even before it is a certainty. And in Presence he almost seems to test, together with us, how much it is still possible to find a meeting point between technique and the human soul, between form and substance. Here too, all the magnificent precariousness of the medium and of the images is needed for this brief 84-minute essay on how to make genre interfere with the story of a family with its conflicts, its mysteries, perhaps... its mourning." (Carlo Valeri)
Il film fa parte di Top 5 – 2025, la rassegna del Centro Pecci Cinema che, da gennaio a febbraio 2026, propone ogni giovedì alle ore 21:00 cinque opere che hanno segnato l’anno cinematografico appena trascorso per forza espressiva e visione autoriale.
