“Swallow” Is a Graphic Discovery of Control and Female Empowerment

Emphasis on the graphic part.

Haley Bennett as Hunter in “Swallow” l IFC FILMS

In the nauseating psychodrama “Swallow,” Hunter (Haley Bennett) is a pregnant housewife who develops a craving for inedible, life-threatening objects as the isolating and controlling environment created by her husband Richie (Austin Stowell) and his parents eat at her. I had two questions as I started…