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As cinemas re-open, you could do a lot worse than going to see Zebra Girl, a film that feels unlike anything else you’ll have seen for a good long while. To mark the occasion we had the pleasure of speaking to director Stephanie Zari, alongside leading star Sarah Roy.

We discussed the themes of the film, and how they managed to blend the whimsical elements and genre movie tropes, with a moving and challenging subject matter. They talk about their own connection to the themes, dragging as lifeless Tom Cullen around for a week, and we ask Roy if she kept the now iconic pink jumper…

Watch the interview with Sarah and Stephanie here:

Synopsis

Catherine’s seemingly perfect rural life is turned upside down after she discovers her husband is hiding a dark secret that leads her to the unthinkable. Murder.

Zebra Girl is out on May 28th...

Stephanie Zari’s thriller debut aims for black humour but also deals with child abuse and mental illness

This low-budget indie set in the dark heart of the rural English suburbs begins with a woman plunging an eight-inch kitchen knife into her husband’s head. The tone that director Stephanie Zari is going for seems to be that blend of violence and black humour that Fargo and Killing Eve make look so easy. But Zebra Girl’s quirky comedy is not quite distinctive enough, and the script lurches iffily into serious issues of child abuse and mental illness in the second half.

Sarah Roy plays the murderer, Catherine, who grabs a knife from the cutlery drawer after catching husband Dan (Tom Cullen) watching unpleasant porn at 3am in the study of their country pile. A shrieky horror movie score blares as she does the deed and afterwards she wraps a...