Gripping short by Aussie David Michôd, one of the most promising young filmmakers around the globe. Sadly, it’s a tough sell holding the youtube generation audience captive for 15 minutes. No problems here, though, as an unseen narrator manages to balance general existentialist brooding and dark hypersexual yearning with downtrodden musings on the helpless, seemingly inevitable and ultimately violent path of the film’s protagonist.

Michôd’s first feature Animal Kingdom appears even more compelling, and lucky for us it arrives Stateside in August. If you’re in need for some more great Down Under content in the meantime, check out the Blue-Tongue Film collective that Michôd calls home, perhaps pound-for-pound the greatest assembly of emerging filmic talent in the world at the moment.

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