Coyote Cinema--The Party's Just Beginning: Impressions

[cyrano]

The thing that caught my eye is that Karen Gillan wrote, directed, and starred in this. I wanted to see how she'd done. And the short answer is, I'm looking forward to seeing future projects, but I don't need to see this again. The story is nonlinear, and takes place in the same sets so it's really hard to figure out when you are. And I don't think the narrator's entirely reliable, so I'm not sure if I'm seeing something actually happening or not. But emotionally, the film is a ninety minute long crushing bruise of exhausting despair, a series of armoring up and deflecting intimacy, awkwardly reaching out for intimacy, and then fleeing intimacy.

And by the end of the night, I'd lost the infectious Inverness burr.

CW: Suicide, repeatedly. Questionable sexual consent. Tiny grain of hope at the end of the tunnel.