A Role (2020)

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

Searching for her role, a young Actress is trying to grasp what she sees in her own reflection. She notices how her outline, albeit blurry enough for her exhausted and weary face not to shame her, is in fact unrecognisable. The long, almost incurable insomnia has made the world surrounding the Actress also fade. Objects and spatial parameters have disappeared and time frames vanish. We are left with the expression of the Actress’s body and the flow of her thoughts in the background.

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