Vanilla

I wasn't fortunate enough to have had the French accompanying film and saw the American short "Vanilla" as a standalone. How I wish I hadn't. This could have been so good as a trip through delusions of madness and paranoia involving a serial killer alongside his victims and the lad who found the body of the perp.

Instead we got a disjointed mush of foolish dreams and bad acting. I'm sure we weren't meant to get a connected narrative as the director presumably wanted to be "thought provoking" and edgy. He utterly failed. I've mentioned before in reviews that I loathe artiness for its own sake. Artiness is fine if it is witty or puts over points and ideas in an original manner. This lamentable effort did no such thing.