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And it’s Bennett’s eyes that sell the skin-crawling premise of the film, so much of which takes place with Hunter locked away, alone and hurting, in a gorgeous country house. The on-screen ingestion - and evacuation - of a tack, AA battery, marble, and dirt is horrifying enough, but so much of what makes Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ “Swallow” so deeply unsettling is Haley Bennett’s performance as Hunter, a young woman driven to compulsive swallowing of inedible items in response to her newfound anachronistic life as a housewife to an entirely uninterested husband. The Best Films of 2020, According to IndieWire’s Staff Haley Bennett, “Swallow”