Ferryman (2023)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Darren Bender
Cast: Oliver Lee, Carli Fish, Raquel Cassidy, Jay Simpson
Synopsis:
A serviceman with already one traumatic experience behind him must soon confront another. He meets an attractive girl belonging to an underground club whose members 'ferry' suicides to their desired outcome in return for the same service from another.
Review:
An impressive feature debut about a moonstruck girl and the mixed-up foster kid she inadvertently tangles with. With its impersonal mobile phone messages, titular evocation of Charon and sinister trysts at railway stations, one imagines something uncannily unstoppable along the lines of It Follows. However, the makers are more interested in the dilemma of the girl confronted with a degenerative illness who then falls in love, no doubt also prompted by the rise in the number of suicides in contemporary Britain. The script wobbles in places but this is touchingly played by the four principals, with excellent camerawork and imaginative use of sound.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Darren Bender
Cast: Oliver Lee, Carli Fish, Raquel Cassidy, Jay Simpson
Synopsis:
A serviceman with already one traumatic experience behind him must soon confront another. He meets an attractive girl belonging to an underground club whose members 'ferry' suicides to their desired outcome in return for the same service from another.
Review:
An impressive feature debut about a moonstruck girl and the mixed-up foster kid she inadvertently tangles with. With its impersonal mobile phone messages, titular evocation of Charon and sinister trysts at railway stations, one imagines something uncannily unstoppable along the lines of It Follows. However, the makers are more interested in the dilemma of the girl confronted with a degenerative illness who then falls in love, no doubt also prompted by the rise in the number of suicides in contemporary Britain. The script wobbles in places but this is touchingly played by the four principals, with excellent camerawork and imaginative use of sound.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Darren Bender
Cast: Oliver Lee, Carli Fish, Raquel Cassidy, Jay Simpson
Synopsis:
A serviceman with already one traumatic experience behind him must soon confront another. He meets an attractive girl belonging to an underground club whose members 'ferry' suicides to their desired outcome in return for the same service from another.
Review:
An impressive feature debut about a moonstruck girl and the mixed-up foster kid she inadvertently tangles with. With its impersonal mobile phone messages, titular evocation of Charon and sinister trysts at railway stations, one imagines something uncannily unstoppable along the lines of It Follows. However, the makers are more interested in the dilemma of the girl confronted with a degenerative illness who then falls in love, no doubt also prompted by the rise in the number of suicides in contemporary Britain. The script wobbles in places but this is touchingly played by the four principals, with excellent camerawork and imaginative use of sound.