Fornacis

When looking at the quartet of titles to be streamed on Saturday at the Cine-Excess festival, this one stood out to me thanks to how striking the photos and trailer for it were, leading to me looking at the stars.

Note:This review contains spoilers.

View on the film:

Driving into walls plastered with 70's film posters, art director/lead actress/writer/director Aurelia Mengin & cinematographer Nicolas Bordier sparkle the metallic stylisation of Cinema Du Look into the Horror genre.

Mengin lines ruby reds, flashing pinks, blues and greens to burst from the deep synch score by Luke Kay,onto the dream-logic whip-pans running along the dive bar. Tightly holding a urn, Mengin opens Anya up with starling dips into symbolic Horror, as scales of buried mourning appear on Anya's back gazed from pristine fluid camera shots settling on Anya's sorrow.

Born from mourning the loss of a close friend,the screenplay by Mengin takes tremendous care in making each line in the limited dialogue build the numb, grieving state of Anya. Mengin casts the dive bar becoming progressively more peculiar,against Anya reaction to withdraw further into herself and place all emotion into the urn.