Donna has recently been convicted of driving while impaired and is ordered to perform community service at the local animal shelter. When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home and quickly realizes his companionship can ease her loneliness. In a futile attempt to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon over her head. Fusing documentary and fiction techniques, the film crafts a visual aesthetic hybrid, through the use of non-professional actors, which blurs the lines of conventional narrative storytelling to explore alienation, addiction, and the powerful desire within all of us for connection.
Presented at Toronto International Film Festival.
Título original: Murmur
Ano: 2019
Classificação: 12
Duração: 84 min.
Gênero: Fiction
País: Canada
Tags: Canada, solitude, animals, female directors, international festivals
Cor: cor
Direção: Heather Young
Roteiro: Heather Young
Fotografia: Jeffery Wheaton
Montagem: Heather Young
Elenco: Shan MacDonald, Andria Edwards
Produtor: Martha Cooley, Heather Young
Produção: Houseplant Films
Música: Sarah DeCourcy
E-mail: [email protected]