Seventeen minutes to unmake a marriage — and maybe yourself.
An angst-ridden man suffering a faltering relationship with his wife leaves his apartment in the hope of finding emotional relief, and instead finds a haunting reality on the streets, forcing him to return home.
Acting
Al Alvarez carries entire emotional arc in near-silence.
Direction
Faella stretches 17 minutes into infinite dread.
Director
Michael Faella
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Silas Weir Mitchell (Bertrand) later played the mentally unstable inmate Charles 'Haywire' Patoshik on Prison Break, making this an early glimpse of his specialty in fractured psyches.
The film inverts the typical 'man goes to city to find himself' narrative — here the city returns him broken, suggesting the problem was never external. The 2002 Festival circuit largely ignored it, though it predates similar micro-budget psychological horror by nearly a decade.
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