MELOPEE (a.k.a. Plainsong) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Alexis Fortier-Gauthier. 18 mins Three young people celebrate “Quebec Day” with a beach house vacation that highlights existing tensions and unfulfilled desires: Olivier (Antoine DesRochers) clearly fancies his mate’s girlfriend Diane (Rosalie Fortier) and, after an unpleasant encounter with patronising locals (verdict on…
Browsing: Short Film
MOMENT **** Canada 2019 Dir: Geoffrey Uloth. 22 mins Screenwriter-director Geoffrey Uloth, who made the series CHASING MONSTERS after a sequence of short films, presents a unique and heartfelt twist on the superhero genre with this unexpectedly moving Montrael-shot piece. After finding a mysterious teddy bear on her bed at…
FOYER (a.k.a. Hearth) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Sophie B Jacques. 11 mins Writer-director Sophie B Jacques’ latest short film offers a droll, cleverly constructed inversion of home invasion tropes with which we are all too familiar. It unfolds in a luxurious neighbourhood and revolves around Emilie (Marilyn Castonguay), who returns…
ALASKA **** Canada 2019 Dir: Gwynne Phillips, Briana Templeton, Chris Wilson. 13 mins Written and directed by three of its stars, this darkly funny class satire has man of modest means (and “in between jobs”) Tom (Chris Wilson) running late with wife Paige (Gwynne Phillips) for the dinner party hosted…
THE CABINET **** UK 2018 Dir: Thomas Nelstrop. 3 mins Actor-turned-writer-director Thomas Nelstrop has crafted a witty, droll comedic distillation of the age-old bathroom cabinet shock – a mainstay of decades of jump-scare horror movies. Elizabeth Bower delivers a winning performance as a chatty dissatisfied customer who returns her cabinet…