Close

APPROPIATE

1993 / 16min.

Rating7

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Synopsis

Vincent has recently become a father and is preparing the house for his newborn daughter's homecoming. His joy and excitement, however, turn into something darker when one of his neighbours (a sad, drunken man whose own children have recently thrown him out of the house) suggests a sordid future for both Vincent and his child. Something inside him snaps and he embarks on a pyschotic mission of 'close cleansing'. -Peter Mullan, Director "Close" is a short film on the darker side of fatherhood, of paternal love swerving dangerously down the wrong path. The mood is disturbing, violent and darkly comic.

Directors

Actors

Peter Mullan

Gary Lewis

Maureen Carr

David McKay

Campbell Soutar

Andrew McKay

Jim McKay

Bob Carr

Emily Winter

Neill McCallum

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