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Siara (Jan Kamar) is a social worker with ambitions to change the world
- but she has also chosen to work at a coffee shop over actually being a
social worker, probably frightened by her own ambition. But now she has
taken things in her own hands to overcome this fear and has launched a
self-help group. The group's first session finds Siara with five people
from all sorts of life, from 16 year old school girl Janet (Olivia Grubic)
to henpecked husband Paul (Brent Baird) to elderly widow Beatrice (Caro
Coltman) to hopeless romantic Eben (Mat Holmlund) to cynical businessman
Merel (Mike D. Smith), and when hearing their problems Siara soon finds
out she might have taken a bigger bite than she can chew, from Merel
trying to convince her the world is not worth saving, to Beatrice wanting
to die ever since her cat has died, to Janet sleeping around with her
friends' boyfriends and being hated for it, to Eben's behaviour when
looking for true love bordering on stalking, to Paul actually wanting to
kill his wife (Teresa Greco) - and eventually Siara comes to doubts
whether she can actually help these people or she actually needs help
herself ...
Now above might actually read like a pretty grave affair - so
it's all the more surprising how light-footed the movie actually is,
effortlessly mixing comedy with drama and relying on poignant dialogue.
And even though the film's set in one location only (apart from a quick
exterior scene), the film's dynamics between its well fleshed-out
characters keep things interesting, as well as its clever structure that
really gives the film's at first seemingly random dialogue narrative
direction. And a very solid cast of course doesn't hurt either when it
comes to making an unexpectedly entertaining movie.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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