MoonshineRed Skyline Productions
CAST: Thomas, Rebecca, and Sara
Perhaps the only film in our festival to play it straight--and 'right down the line,' if you know what I mean. Moonshine is no moonlight serenade; this is one cynical little film! Prescott (Thomas) is an 'absurd man' on whom nothing registers--not school, not lunch, not even his annoying friend Luna (Rebecca) who pesters him repeatedly about all things social and academic. By the film's end it's clear that Luna has murdered someone and left the body for Prescott to find and take the blame.
HIGHS: Night-vision shooting on school grounds; tracking shot of school hallway cieling as the credits roll and the camera tilts down to follow Thomas walking--very smooth!; match cut of Thomas' pen transitioning to a fork at lunchtime; anomie aplenty as Thomas eats popcorn with a fork; Rebecca's performance as the wonderfully irritating Luna (nice name, btw); Sara's gorgeous cinematography both day and night.
LOWS: None really, but a few Loose Plot Threads--When Luna sends Prescott to her car, why does he think he's going there? She just asks him to go to her car and throws him the keys. It's clearly part of her scheme to frame him for the murder, but what's at the car for him? And who died and why? Luna is some femme fatale!
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE: This film gets the Baby Daz for originality--for only allowing the chuckles to be dark ones--and for showing what we always suspected: that Wing Kay, at the very least, has a tobacco problem.
