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Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh takes us there in “ Presence ,” a ghost story filmed entirely in a New Jersey home. Unlike most films in the genre, the movie, in theaters Friday (Jan. 24), is told solely from the point of view of the ghost.

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“Presence” is a beautifully executed vision of a rather mediocre script. What makes it interesting is the POV “gimmick,” which Soderbergh demonstrates as a legitimate mode of cinematic storytelling. His camera movements take on such a human quality that we become emotionally connected to it as another character in the story.

The matriarch of the family, Liu’s Rebecca is a seemingly complicated person who us in some trouble at work, but like most of the family, she’s largely a cipher, driving the plot along and saddled with a storyline that sometimes dips into very familiar squabbling parent syndrome.

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us drift through rooms with this curious being, in and out of delicate conversations as we (and the ghost) try to piece together a puzzle blindly.

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“Presence” is a strong story with characters who we truly know which is why the ending is so terribly disturbing. With thoughtful and skilled cinematography, we, too, feel the presence in the house. Soderbergh’s direction shines in the story with performances that take your breath away.

Sundance, Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp return with Presence, a formally fascinating take on the ghost story.