10 minutes, one breakup, infinite ways to miss someone.
Ricochet is the beginning and end of a love story. Agnes is leaving Gael, her long-term boyfriend, suddenly, and without explanation. Told through a series of vignettes, Ricochet is about the tricks of time, perceptions of love and memory's persistent invasion of reality. Ricochet is inspired by Luis Bunuel's biography My Last Breath, and features a riveting central performance from award-winning Australian actor Daniel Henshall (Snowtown). Sometimes life can only be understood backward. Unfortunately it has to be lived forward.
Acting
Henshall's silent devastation speaks paragraphs.
Editing
Non-linear structure that actually earns its confusion.
Direction
Scrivano weaponizes 10 minutes like a feature.
Director
Laura Scrivano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references both the bullet-physics metaphor and the 1963 French novel 'La Ricoche' about destructive passion.
Scrivano shot the vignettes in reverse script order so Henshall could physically de-age his performance through the day's shoot.
AU
