1990, Greece
In this depraved take on Otto Preminger’s Laura, a man searching for his lost love stumbles upon an isolated villa where two women play out a perverse identity game.
Barely conscious upon arrival, he is quickly adopted into the fold as both plaything and patriarch.
Substitution, and the role-playing that results from it, is discernible throughout Singapore Sling.
The two women act out their mother/ daughter fantasy – wherein they are lovers as well as kin – and the younger woman confesses also to a sexual relationship with her absent ‘father’ before the two women killed him.
But at the heart of the film and its bizarre trajectory of torture and manipulation is the visiting man’s belief that the younger woman is actually his missing girlfriend, Laura.
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