Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Anna (2013) is a modest psychological thriller with an intriguing premise involving memory-diving and trauma assessment. The concept of entering minds to diagnose a teenager is engaging enough to sustain interest, and the performances are competent without being remarkable. The cinematography is functional and occasionally atmospheric but nothing distinctive. The film's novelty lies in its clinical framing of the psychic-memory premise, though it doesn't push the concept as far as it could. The ending feels somewhat predictable and deflating, failing to deliver a satisfying payoff to the mystery built up throughout.