“A unique screenplay provides us with a real diamond. For an independant movie, Cassandra even offers up great practical special-effects, and something rarely witnessed in short film, wonderful sound design.”
by Paul Booth
Cassandra Synopsis:
Two thieves, a young rebellious women and her mentor, infiltrate a besieged medieval city, in order to retrieve an artifact. The city is struggling against barbarians known as “Gokts,” which allows the thieves to easily reach their objective, a temple. There, a Gokt ambushes the pair and is about to kill them when they are saved by a priest who mistakes them for mercenaries hired to help the city. Now, decisions have to be made; should they still steal as planned from the man who just saved them or should they leave him behind?
- Cassandra
- Directed by
Guy-Roger Duvert - Cast
Alex Freeman, Eric Kailey, Noémie Goetsch - Release Date
TBD - Paul’s Grade: A
The quality of short films has been on the rise in the last two years, yet Cassandra manages meet the raised bar and goes one step further, with a brilliant score, excellent cinematography (incendiary use of shadows) and sure-handed direction by Guy-Roger Duvert. It usually takes 3-plus hours for feature-films to achieve a well-made medieval-themed movie. Cassandra offers beautiful set design, costumes and performances that make us wish it was two hours long, instead of 13 minutes.
*****
A unique screenplay provides us with a real diamond. For an independant movie, Cassandra even offers up great practical special-effects, and something rarely witnessed in short film, wonderful sound design. Enjoyable from start to finish.
Check out Cassandra-The Movie on Facebook for the (long) list of screenings. Here are a few in the L.A. Southern California area.
Screenings
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival on Friday 9/19 3:45 p.m. 9/20 7:45 p.m.
Lady Filmmaker’s Film Festival, September 27th 2 p.m. in Beverly Hills
SoCal Independent Film Festival Oct. 1st-5th www.socalfilmfest.com
