[Excerpt from a post originally made on the "Tales from the Freakpit" blog]
Next up was the "Night Terrors" strand of dark short films. The highlights for me were the excellent animated short EVERYTHING WILL BE OK, following a man's descent into nervous breakdown, and Matt Palmer's ISLAND, a tense affair that doesn't bring anything new to the table but does create an air of suspense from start to blackly comic finish. And if I'm not mistaken it looks like it was filmed near where I live too, which is nice.
Finally, I saw the low-budget (almost no-budget) Scottish drama THE INHERITANCE. Its lack of funding is obvious but this Scottish road movie has plenty of heart, captivating performances by Fraser Sivewright and Tim Barrow (the latter also wrote the script) and stunning photography that shines through the shot-on-video roots. Already receiving good word of mouth on the festival circuit, it's unlikely to break out into large theatrical distribution but is far too good to simply fade from view. Part road movie, part film noir, part relationship drama, it's another fine entry in the canon of Scottish cinema. It also gets bonus points for me for a scene towards the end in which director Charles Henri Belleville is surely making visual reference to THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Sergio Leone on the Isle of Skye - nice combination.
That'll be the last update for a week or so, as tomorrow night I'll be popping off to the Dublin Film Festival for a few days. If you're there, why not go and see THE INHERITANCE.
Next up was the "Night Terrors" strand of dark short films. The highlights for me were the excellent animated short EVERYTHING WILL BE OK, following a man's descent into nervous breakdown, and Matt Palmer's ISLAND, a tense affair that doesn't bring anything new to the table but does create an air of suspense from start to blackly comic finish. And if I'm not mistaken it looks like it was filmed near where I live too, which is nice.
Finally, I saw the low-budget (almost no-budget) Scottish drama THE INHERITANCE. Its lack of funding is obvious but this Scottish road movie has plenty of heart, captivating performances by Fraser Sivewright and Tim Barrow (the latter also wrote the script) and stunning photography that shines through the shot-on-video roots. Already receiving good word of mouth on the festival circuit, it's unlikely to break out into large theatrical distribution but is far too good to simply fade from view. Part road movie, part film noir, part relationship drama, it's another fine entry in the canon of Scottish cinema. It also gets bonus points for me for a scene towards the end in which director Charles Henri Belleville is surely making visual reference to THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Sergio Leone on the Isle of Skye - nice combination.
That'll be the last update for a week or so, as tomorrow night I'll be popping off to the Dublin Film Festival for a few days. If you're there, why not go and see THE INHERITANCE.
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