There's a special breed of assassins out there who take pride to their work and do it out of passion, who call themselves "artists" - complete with their own fanclubs and everything. And at the infamous Coda Teahouse Massacre, no less than four artists were killed, Frosty (Jason Frost), Lady Faith (Kate Huffman), Lucien Mercy (Ariadne Shaffer) and Red Rick (Pall McQueen) - them and 17 other people, guests and personell alike and even a documentary film crew. For years, how this actually started has remained a mystery, but now footage that above film crw has taken has turned up - and it seems they've been following all four above artists around and documented the days leading up to the massacre. It tells the story about Red Rick, who after years of lying to his wife that he's an air purefyer salesman has finally found the courage to confess the truth about his profession - and she's so turned on by this that she makes him teach her how to become a hitwoman ... up to the point where she would ditch him and become Lady Faith, one of the best in the business. It also tells the tale of Frosty, whose partner has just been killed, and who has lately seen a decline in hits as they're stolen by one Scorpio (David Mitchell). But when he goes to kill Scorpio, he instead makes him his partner. And there's also Lucien, whose sister Angel (Melanee Nelson) was to kill their dad's killer, but instead she has fallen in love with him. The sisters break up - and then Lucien falls in love with her latest mark (Rick Rico), and eventually her husband (Danny Gonzalez) finds out. And somehow all these stories converge, and it doesn't sit good with anybody that Frosty, Lucien and Rick all claim they have killed Rockstar, the one true legend in the assassin game. So when they meet in the teahouse, a shoot-out is almost inevitable ...

Of course, this film is at least somehow reminiscent of the Belgian serialkiller mockumentary classic Man Bites Dog, but mostly in theme and rather macabre brand of humour - and if your sense of humour's rather on the dark side, you're very likely to find Artists in Agony very funny -, story- and stylewise, the movie at hand comes into its own very quickly, managing to juggle and ultimately tie up several narrative threads, telling several stories along the way that all manage to keep the audience engaged, while garnering the thing with enough satire and social commentaryn to go beyond a just laugh-out-loud comedy approach - all of which is making this into a very entertaining and totally enjoyable movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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