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Muse
UK 2019
produced by Leslie Grantham, Richard John Taylor, Mark Butler (executive), Rhian Watts-Joyce (executive), Richard Watts-Joyce (executive) for LJQ, Altis International
directed by Richard John Taylor
starring Jeffrey Charles Richards, Nicholas Ball, Emily Price, Lowri Watts-Joyce, Kitty Lucas, Kev Orkian
written by Richard John Taylor, music by Craig Gannon
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After the death of his wife, his daughter Ethel (Emily Price) was
writer Harry's (Jeffrey Charles Richards) everything - but then she dies
being run over by a car, and his world shatters around him. At the
suggestion of his agent (Nicholas Ball), Harry moves to his house in
France to write his memoirs, and at first he doesn't seem to be getting
anywhere, until he meets Eloise, a girl who has wondered onto his premises
looking for her dog, and who's just the splitting image of Ethel (and thus
also played by Emily Price). And after the two get off on the wrong foot
at first, Harry gets more and more taken in by the girl, so much so that
he invites her over to take swims in his pool, and he has long
conversations with her, whose dad she says is also a writer. But while his
days brighten up because of her, his nights grow ever darker, as he keeps
wandering the premises driven by God-knows-what, and more than once, he
breaks down somewhere outside and usually Eloise picks him up the next day
to help him home. But at least his memoirs get along really well - or so
Harry says, as it soon becomes apparent than quite a few things in Harry's
life other than his grief are not quite right ... A very
interesting mood piece that really manages to get you into the muddled
mind of its protagonist and make his haunting obsessions yours - which if
of course thanks to solid writing, a directorial effort that intentionally
takes its time to develop things rather than bank on spectacle, lush
cinematography (helped by wonderful locations but a bit marred by a bit
too much shaky camera work), and of course a first rate cast. It's pretty
much a trip you won't easily forget - but by no means expect this to be a
feel-good movie.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
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love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
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all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
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the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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