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Diane
USA 2017
produced by Davis Mikaels, Michael Mongillo, Thomas Edward Seymour, Taylor Warren, Jason Alan Smith (executive) for Mean Time Productions
directed by Michael Mongillo
starring Jason Alan Smith, Carlee Avers, Margaret Rose Champagne, Dick Boland, Jim Thalman, Doug Tompos, Ryan Barry McCarthy, Davis Mikaels, Kathy Searle, Sewell Whitney, Kathrine Barnes, Bob Bannon, Daniel F. Patterson, Kimbette Fenol, Michelle Lagoa-Lawson, Adam John Sass, Phyllis Somerville
screenplay by Michael Mongillo, based on a story by Matt Giannini, music by Austin Wintory
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Steve (Jason Alan Smith) is a veteran from the Afghanistan war, who
despite still being fairly young, lives on a disabled pension due to a leg
injury - which accounts for his depressions among other things. One day he
finds a dead woman, Diane (Carlee Avers), in his back yard, and before
calling the police he takes a snap of her, becoming quite enamoured with
her beauty in the process. Now the police suspect Steve being Diane's
killer from square one, but have literally nothing to hold him for, and
all circumstantial evidence that comes up by and by actually points to the
opposite. Also, Steve couldn't be more cooperative in the investigations,
even if his own statements are not always in his favour. Due to Steve's
sheer involvement with finding the body though, he does become a bit of a
local celebrity, something he isn't at all fond of, and especially
considering his well-known personal problems (depressions and possible
PTSD), there are those who consider him Diane's actual killer. Soon
enough, Diane starts to appear to Steve in his nightmares too, and
sometimes he sees her spirit even - so he might be involved with her death
after all, but maybe not in the way you might expect ... Diane
is a very powerful psycho thriller, and one that keeps the audience
guessing until the very end, thanks to an extremely cleverly written
script that takes it time to develop both characters and story and uses
its deliberately slow pace for maximum impact, while the direction is at
the same time subtle enough to give the story its room to breathe and
makes perfect use of colour-grading, sound, music and the like to create a
perfectly eerie, almost otherworldly atmosphere, while the performances
are all spot-on. Quite a creepy ride to be sure, but one you won't
regret ...
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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