In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael discuss Strange Darling (2023), a sharply constructed thriller that plays with perspective, chronology, and audience expectation to constantly shift the ground beneath its story.

Through the show’s voice note conversation format, the hosts talk about the film’s fragmented structure, its deliberate withholding of information, and how it invites the viewer to make assumptions before quietly pulling them apart. They explore how the film engages with genre conventions, particularly around power, control, and victimhood, and how those ideas are reframed as the narrative unfolds.

They also discuss the film’s stylisation, its use of tension and misdirection, and whether its structural ambition enhances or distances the emotional impact, leaving the audience to question not just what they are seeing, but how they are choosing to interpret it.