Thomas In Love, the debut feature film by Belgian director Pierre-Paul Renders, opens with a point-of-view shot of its title character having sex with a pneumatic computer-generated cartoon. In discomfiting, huffing detail.
It's a surreal start to what turns out to be a strangely realistic live-action movie, one shot entirely from the visual perspective of Thomas, a severe agoraphobic in his early thirties whose terror of both open air and human contact has kept him cooped up in his apartment for eight years.
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