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Good Mourning, Lucille
USA 2014
produced by Shannon Constantine Logan for Constant Alchemy Productions
directed by Vanessa Libertad Garcia
starring Najarra Townsend, Eric Roberts, Sarah Connine, Brit Manor, Che Landon, Richard Banker, Mercedes LeAnza
story by Vanessa Libertad Garcia, screenplay by Vanessa Libertad Garcia, Shannon Constantine Logan, music by Elliott Goldkind
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's been 6 months since Rachel has disappeared, so her twin sister
Lucille (both twins played by Najarra Townsend) wants to make a memorial
video for her, with all of Rachel's best friends - Rachel's boyfriend Jack
(Richard Banker), their couple therapist/healer Selma (Mercedes LeAnza),
Rachel's mysterious and cynical friend Geneva (Sarah Connine), Rachel's
lesbian best friend forever Sonia (Brit Manor), and Sonia's dykey
girlfriend Madeline (Che Landon). Of course, Lucille also has another
motive for this, to finally find out what had really happened to Rachel,
and she figures one of those present just has to know ... but the whole
thing soon goes downhills as things are revealed about Rachel that ought
to have remained unrevealed - like she and Geneva have actually worked as
high class prostitutes on the side, without Jack knowing it, Jack having
had an affair with Selma, Sonia having been madly in love with Rachel and
the like, and the whole thing soon turns into chaos, including everybody
having sex with everyone and the like - and over the course of the
evening, Lucille grows more and more desparate. But to be fair, Lucille
hasn't been entirely honest with her guests either, she actually set up
hidden cameras everywhere to sell the evening off as the pilot of a new
reality TV show, "America's Next Top Killer", and has the whole
meeting secretly monitored by a TV producer (Eric Roberts). But be all
that as it may, one question's still unanswered that seems to be a
priority for everyone involved, and that's what has really happened to
Rachel? At its heart, Good Mourning, Lucille is a good
old-fashioned whodunnit, and one that sets in at what's usually the
finale, when all the suspects are assembled in one place for the killer to
be called out or betraying him-/herself - and like all good whodunnit, who
actually did it does take backseat behind the way to get there, the
narrative rather than the conclusion takes center stage. The cool thing
about Good Mourning, Lucille though is that it's totally aware of
genre mainstays, plays with them, breaks with tradition, and plays
everything entirely tongue-in-cheek ... and as a result is just really
good at entertaining its audience!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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