Paradise Falls
Written and directed by Fantavious Fritz
Canada, 2013
Director Fantavious Fritz, his name itself sounding straight out of a Wes Anderson tale, has crafted a magical story of adolescence following in the tradition of Huck Finn, yet told through the eyes of a young modernist filmmaker. Paradise Falls begins through a deep-voiced narration (provided by Alex Crowther) in deadpan inflections recalling the history and setting of the Paradise Falls suburban development, now abandoned and surrounded by death and curses. Two boys, Sonny Coburn (Alistair Ball) and Dirk Filmore (Uri Livene-Bar) form a relationship to conquer the community’s fears of the haunted air of the grand house, leading to series of the boys lazing about its many empty rooms, subsisting on frozen pizza. As boredom reaches a zenith and the boys run out of food, the spirits of the house become cognizant and anthropomorphized as Eleanor (Daiva Zalnieriunas), the...
Written and directed by Fantavious Fritz
Canada, 2013
Director Fantavious Fritz, his name itself sounding straight out of a Wes Anderson tale, has crafted a magical story of adolescence following in the tradition of Huck Finn, yet told through the eyes of a young modernist filmmaker. Paradise Falls begins through a deep-voiced narration (provided by Alex Crowther) in deadpan inflections recalling the history and setting of the Paradise Falls suburban development, now abandoned and surrounded by death and curses. Two boys, Sonny Coburn (Alistair Ball) and Dirk Filmore (Uri Livene-Bar) form a relationship to conquer the community’s fears of the haunted air of the grand house, leading to series of the boys lazing about its many empty rooms, subsisting on frozen pizza. As boredom reaches a zenith and the boys run out of food, the spirits of the house become cognizant and anthropomorphized as Eleanor (Daiva Zalnieriunas), the...
- 9/18/2013
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
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