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In this dark short film debut by director Simon Baré, newly promoted Catherine (Kirsty Hamilton) is taken to an opulent restaurant by the more worldly-wise Grant (playwright David Geary) and Sarah (Smuts-Kennedy). The evening promises a “dance with our darkest fear” — but its amoral reality utterly challenges Catherine (and makes grim Greenaway-esque irony of the title). Singer/composer Janet Roddick provides the soundtrack (Edith Piaf’s ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien’) for this winner at the NZ Film Awards and Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.
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All very unexpected, loved it. So very dark, so very thought provoking - I see it as an artistic perspective of reality today...thankyou
Di Oliver Productions
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2001 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Selected for ‘Best of Clermont-Ferrand' travelling retrospective
1995 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Le Prix de la Jeunesse
1995 Odense Film Festival
Youth Jury 1st Prize
Most Surprising Film 3rd Prize
1994 NZ Film & Television Awards
Best Short Film
1994 Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani, Turin
Best Short Film
Festivals include
1994 Official Selection Cannes (Special Season of New Zealand Short Films), 1996 Brussels International Film Festival, 1996 Arcipelago (Italy), 1996 Hamburg Short Film Festival, 1995 Toronto International Film Festival, 1995 Goteborg (Sweden), 1995 Dublin, 1995 Tampere (Finland) - In Competition, Vila do Conde Short Film Festival (Portugal), 1995 Hamburg, 1994 Brisbane, 1994 Hof (Germany), 1994 Sao Paulo (Brazil), 1994 San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy Film Festival
Finalist - Most
Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010 & 2011
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2012
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Wombat
Posted at 04.54AM - 21.04.2012
From time to time there is artwork that goes beyond accomplished mastery and ordinary admiration. It develops something very unique by itself, a kind of imaginary field capturing the audience, with no conflict, no hesitation, no choice. Just a glimpse of the observer's innermost nature and the sweet smell of a widely lost love among living creatures.
I first watched the film in the mid 1990s, immediately bought a VHS copy and never saw anything like that since then. Thank you very much for making this masterpiece available to the world. Kind regards from Austria.