Premiere at Fragments Festival, directorial effort from Juan Felipe Zuleta
An off-beat indie road trip movie about two people who start off as strangers and are en route to an alien pick up point in Canada.
Winona has the belief she is to be abducted and convinces her neighbour, to borrow his car and they drive to the abduction site together. Together the two forge to find their place in the universe.
Using distinct details such as the hot pink car in which they travel, the pair encounter some oddballs on their journey such as a nefarious border agent and two admirers of Winona who is a sex worker. Interspersed with odd vignettes and side-tracks that can be disruptive in other hands, yet Zuleta shows a deftness in handling proceedings throughout.
The film has an unusual energy thanks in part to the casting of small person actor Matthew August Jeffers as Peter and Sarah Hay as Winona making the odd couple. The chemistry between the two of them make for good viewing as they come to terms with their lot in life, overcoming the difficulties the planet in this galaxy has thrown them forcing Winona to seek answers elsewhere and smart Peter to question the rationale of it all, in a dwarf body he struggles to come to terms with his place as he feels he does not belong in this world.
For any road movie, the journey is always forward it is only when the characters stop and talk in diners or in the car, when those periods of calm arrive they get the opportunity to reflect and understand themselves and each other. The destination as ever is not the goal, the journey is the reward for these two outcasts on this world as they seek the answers on some other strata.
Unidentified Objects screens as part of the Fragments Festival on Friday 29th September at 9pm in Genesis Cinema
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