Seven young people sign up for the “Confronting your toxic parents” workshop that takes place in a vast conference facility in Upper Hut (in real life, an abandoned racecourse with multiple buildings on its premises), judging by its architecture – probably built somewhere in the 1970s.
More than anything else, Under Her Skin is a universal tale of teenagers’ plight to make their personality outplay parents expectations and will. The film opts for an unusual path of describing a coming of age story.
Anita is an eye-openingy study of male-femele relationships crushed under the burden of patriarchal norms. The film competes in Orizzonti Short programme of the 77the edition of Venice Film Festival.
lorent Morin’s meticulously precise compositing makes the images dance in vibrant tempo, and the script written with greatest care transfers us back to our previous selves, vulnerable, but honest to the questions of life and death, the unconditional love and the awkward period of solitude in our desperation.
What is striking about the film is its smoothly built erotic tension, free of exaggerations.
In her script written for the film, Saffon is very peculiar about showing many faces of the environment she had placed her protagonists in.
What starts as a simple walk to the supermarket ends in a heartbreaking contemporary tale of human, work-related drama.
Laurynas Bareisa shows to which extent the human ability to show empathy, or to be generally shocked by atrocities has weakened.
Gender roles, social issues and the mighty discrepancy between the small catholic community and its biggest source of income, it all comes together in a skillfully rounded short documentary.
