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Don't You Recognise Me?
Ireland 2016
produced by Matthew Toman, Jason Figgis (executive), Mark Holmes (executive) for October Eleven Pictures
directed by Jason Figgis
starring Darren Travers, Matthew Toman, Jason Sherlock, Emma Dunlop, Alan Rogers, Shauna Ryan, Mark Donaghy, Jason Figgis, Darragh Moran, Monica O'Neill, Hayley O'Reilly, Sally Casey, Justin Curran, Zoe Kavanagh, Brendan D'Arcy, Mark Donaghy
written by Jason Figgis, music by Michael Richard Plowman, Soft Hill, Zoe Kavanagh
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Documentary filmmaker Tony (Matthew Toman) and crew set out to shoot a
"day in the life"-documentary about young wannabe gangster K
(Jason Sherlock), living in the rough part of town, which promises great
material - and at first K doesn't disappoint, doing plenty of tough talk
and boasting about his reputation and the like ... and then he leads Tony
and team to a warehouse run by his friend Daz (Darren Travers), who
insists on showing Tony a documentary of his own - and it shows Tony
shooting young Damo (also Darren Travers) dead, who just happens to be
Daz's twin brother. It doesn't take Tony long to figure out he's in a
bad situation, and that Daz and company want their revenge - but it gets
really nasty when he finds they have already captured his brother Frank
(Mark Donaghy), who has been the cameraguy of the film with Daz's brother,
and have beaten him pretty much to a pulp, and it's up to Tony to at least
save his life by convincing them he's sorry - but this is of course a game
with no fixed rules ... Done the found footage way, Don't
You Recognise Me? uses this approach to really get under your skin:
The movie's topic alone is disturbing enough already, but the nervous
camerawork that refuses to follow just one person, and the dialogue that's
too often too many characters talking all at once manage to disorient the
viewer but at the same time adding to the tenseness of the situation. And
add to this some very cool performances that really carry the characters'
desparations, and you've got yourself a pretty good film.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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