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Burnt Flowers
UK 2024
produced by Louise Nosbod for Fausti Films
directed by Michael Fausti
starring Amber Doig-Thorne, Ayvianna Snow, Alice Stevenson, Dani Thompson, Laurence R. Harvey, Dean Kilbey, Mark Collier, Michael Fausti, Andrew Elias, Roe Haven, Carmelo Viviani (= Adrian Viviani), Faith Elizabeth, Cy Henty, Annabella Rich, Philip Andrew Rogers, Shayla Tharp, Michal Szpunt, Rachel Daphne Oneale, Robert Alexander, Jade Chloe Ayres, Alexander Churchyard, Nick Burns, Trevor Foxon, Peter Foxon, Singh Lall, Mark Lawrence, Sean Botha, Hannah Paterson, Alex Nathan-Woods
written by Michael Fausti, music by Nick Burns, cinematography by Kemal Yildirim, special effects makeup by Alexander Gent
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Pretty much out of nowhere, a mysterious woman, Alice (Ayvianna Snow)
waltzes into Detective Franc's (Amber Doig-Thorne) office to make a
missing person report regarding her husband Austin (Carmelo Viviani) who
has disappeared exactly 8 years ago. However, she's more than vague about
why she reports it only now, why she apparently hasn't even tried to find
him herself, or even about his age. So Franc doesn't take the case very
seriously - until she gets a call from psychic Iris (Alice Stevenson), who
wants to help her solve a decade-old killing spree. Of course, Franc
doesn't take her seriously either, but is pretty much professionally
obliged to hear her out - and among the photos Iris has collected of the
case is a photo that shows Austin ... together with her own mother,
Kathleen (Roe Haven). So Franc follows up Iris's clues and soon is thrown
into a sordid story that involves a gangster kingpin (Michael Fausti), the
chief of police (Laurence R. Harvey), her peers (Dean Kilbey, Mark
Collier), Iris's own psychic turned dominatrix mother (Dani Thompson) and
quite a few murdered woman, and makes her learn more about her life, her
mother and even herself. But will she be able to put the pieces together
quickly enough before the walls close in? This film is
certainly a very unique experience: Sure, storywise it's a complex noir,
but one garnered with supernatural and metaphysical elements, one that at
times follows the routes of associative storytelling and that works on
more than one timeline. And while this admittedly makes the plot not
always easy to follow, it at the same time creates a fascinating maze,
also helped by its slightly artificial yet poignant dialogues and its
directorial style that while borrowing heavily from film noir, manages to
draw one in by its choice of cameraangles that often seem a bit off but
all the more fascitnating for it. And add to that a strong cast playing
colourful characters and you've got yourself a pretty cool movie.
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