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A Year in the Death of Jack Richards

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	radiofreeadam@ wrote:
	There's a pervasive sense of dread in the micro-budget, super-16mm indie A Year in the Death of Jack Richards that puts most burnished Hollywood horror-shows to shame. On the basis of his first professional feature, Concordia University grad B. P. Paquette (a decorated student filmmaker in his native Sudbury) is an estimable mood-setter. He's also clearly an optimist: the film, a sepia-toned puzzle-box mystery about a retired theology professor (Vlasta Vrana) who takes a superintendent job at an apartment building in an attempt to distance himself from his troubles (about which the less said, the better) is elliptical enough to give even hardy avant-gardists fits. It's pretentious, but at the same time, it's not disposable: Vrana, a familiar character actor, convinces us there's something at stake in his character's apparent mental breakdown, and Paquette drops just enough juicy-yet-inscrutable clues to keep us intrigued despite our (ultimately confirmed) suspicions that the fantasy-vs-reality gamesmanship won't amount to much. The Lynchian sound design and frequent red-tinted shock cuts, meanwhile, keep us alert: Paquette's occasionally lulling technique works all the better due to his tendency to violently interrupt it. (8/10)
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