Stars: Catherine Bérubé, Lake Delisle, Alex Rice, Margaux Vaillancourt | Written and Directed by Mariel Sharp
At just fifteen minutes, short movie Where the Witch Lives manages to pack a lot into what seems like just the start of a story. A mother and her two young daughters move into old, worn-down and isolated house next to a river. The twelve-year-old and eldest daughter believes that a witch that lives there is starting to torment them.
It’s a perfect short story, in that it fills the run time perfectly and runs well as a short but leaves you wanting more. And it’s easy to see how this could be made into a full-length feature either by continuing the story that is told here or by stretching out the story told here.
You’re quickly thrown into the short and everything is explained right away. It’s a dark story,...
At just fifteen minutes, short movie Where the Witch Lives manages to pack a lot into what seems like just the start of a story. A mother and her two young daughters move into old, worn-down and isolated house next to a river. The twelve-year-old and eldest daughter believes that a witch that lives there is starting to torment them.
It’s a perfect short story, in that it fills the run time perfectly and runs well as a short but leaves you wanting more. And it’s easy to see how this could be made into a full-length feature either by continuing the story that is told here or by stretching out the story told here.
You’re quickly thrown into the short and everything is explained right away. It’s a dark story,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
in their remote, rambling house by the waterside, 12-year-old Cassie (Lake Kahentawaks Delisle) and her little sister Phé (Margaux Vaillancourt) live according to strict rules. They have to be in bed by nine every night, and are never to leave the property, because if they do, they are told, the river witch will get them. Mommie Christine (Catherine Bérubé) treats this very seriously. When it emerges that Phé has gone wandering, she is forced to burn her little toy rabbit. Cassie is outraged, reminding Mommie Christine that it’s all she has left, but Mommie Christine says that it’s a necessary sacrifice to keep them all safe.
Seen through the children’s eyes, Mariel Sharp’s latest short Fantasia International Film Festival contribution is rich in the visual language of childhood: full of low angles, a patchwork of light and shadow as lush grass gives way to a shadowy tunnel of trees and.
Seen through the children’s eyes, Mariel Sharp’s latest short Fantasia International Film Festival contribution is rich in the visual language of childhood: full of low angles, a patchwork of light and shadow as lush grass gives way to a shadowy tunnel of trees and.
- 7/21/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival as part of their Industry Selects sidebar, Jesse Noah Klein’s Like a House on Fire follows Veep star Sarah Sutherland as Dara, a woman who returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. Now set for a release later this month, on March 30, from Game Theory Films, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer. and poster.
“While this film began to come together, I got married to someone I have known for much of my life and so ideas about family and parenthood were never far off. My siblings and my closest friends have become parents and it’s something my wife and I talk about for our future,...
“While this film began to come together, I got married to someone I have known for much of my life and so ideas about family and parenthood were never far off. My siblings and my closest friends have become parents and it’s something my wife and I talk about for our future,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Anxiety is high at the start of Jesse Noah Klein’s Like a House on Fire. We hear Dara (Sarah Sutherland) breathing heavily in the bathroom of a train car before finding her seat. From there it’s a taxi and the not so confident stroll to a house’s front door—the laughter of a child behind its barrier stopping her in her tracks and forcing her to run across the street and hide as her breathing grows heavier yet again. She lowers herself even further once Danny (Jared Abrahamson) and little Isabel (Margaux Vaillancourt) exit on their way to daycare. Only after some distance is created between them does Dara dare follow and wait for him to inevitably turn around and spark a confrontation two years in the making.
That’s how long it’s been since he’s seen her. It’s also how long it’s...
That’s how long it’s been since he’s seen her. It’s also how long it’s...
- 9/22/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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