The movie centers on a mysterious young woman who materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.
an exploration of feminine self and otherness beyond the male gaze. It has something in common with Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, although it substitutes that film's near constant sense of menace and predation with poetic insight and wonderment.
as a portrait of female identity, in all its hopes and disappointments, joys and sorrows, Imitation Girl inspires a shudderingly sublime sense of awe that is not ultimately defined by male desires and demands.
Although the higher order thinking that sits just below the surface throughout isn't always entirely clear, it remains, for the most part, emotionally gripping.
