Expanded (apparently at the encouragement of Joel Coen) from the short film made five years earlier, director Freddy MacDonald (and his co-screenwriter dad) here fashion the story in a sort of rondo form (think 'Run Lola Run') with a frame, looping narratives, and voice-overs to tell of a seemingly depressed seamstress who comes across an accident and concludes she has three choices about how to proceed (the short forms the basis for the first of these).
It is an odd film, melding the straight-up DIY whimsy of something like 'Dave Made a Maze' with the nastier elements of 'Shallow Grave,' and I'm not sure it all works equally well (one minor example being some wholly unnecessary repeated dialogue, another more serious one being some of the overly complicated cat's cradle-type thread creations used to drive the plot) but it's fun to watch and Eve Connolly is good in the lead role.
The first section is interesting and the second is both the funniest (largely due to a great supporting turn from K Callan) and the most tense, while the third is kinda falls short for me (it's a bit too Tarantino wannabe what with its quasi-standoff over food in a restaurant). And, I'm not sure why the film needed to be set in Switzerland with a cast largely speaking in American English, but if you can look past that, give it a go.
Expanded (apparently at the encouragement of Joel Coen) from the short film made five years earlier, director Freddy MacDonald (and his co-screenwriter dad) here fashion the story in a sort of rondo form (think 'Run Lola Run') with a frame, looping narratives, and voice-overs to tell of a seemingly depressed seamstress who comes across an accident and concludes she has three choices about how to proceed (the short forms the basis for the first of these).
It is an odd film, melding the straight-up DIY whimsy of something like 'Dave Made a Maze' with the nastier elements of 'Shallow Grave,' and I'm not sure it all works equally well (one minor example being some wholly unnecessary repeated dialogue, another more serious one being some of the overly complicated cat's cradle-type thread creations used to drive the plot) but it's fun to watch and Eve Connolly is good in the lead role.
The first section is interesting and the second is both the funniest (largely due to a great supporting turn from K Callan) and the most tense, while the third is kinda falls short for me (it's a bit too Tarantino wannabe what with its quasi-standoff over food in a restaurant). And, I'm not sure why the film needed to be set in Switzerland with a cast largely speaking in American English, but if you can look past that, give it a go.
