Tim and Tay discuss Trey Edward Shults’ feature debut Krisha, its expert use of horror tropes and its endlessly frugal composition.
Krisha is a 2015 family drama about a recovering addict and alcoholic in her sixties attempting to reconnect with her family over Thanksgiving. Directed by Trey Edward Shults, Krisha stars his real-life aunt Krisha Fairchild in the eponymous lead role, and was produced on a crowd-sourced, shoe-string budget.
Krisha is available as a digital rental on iTunes.
Scene (51:39 — 55:18)
Starring Krisha Fairchild as Krisha, Robyn Fairchild as Robyn, Bill Wise as Doyle & Trey Edward Shults as Trey.
After a series of seemingly traumatic encounters with her mother and Trey, Krisha relapses, unceremoniously uncorking a bottle of wine with a pair of scissors in her bathroom. She guzzles back the bottle, entering an almost dream-like, euphoric state. Returning to her family downstairs for final dinner preparations, Krisha attempts to remove the giant family-sized Thanksgiving turkey from the oven. Her hands tremble and the turkey falls to the floor, creating an enormous mess and ruining the family dinner.
Links
3:00 — Krisha’s many awards
3:30 — Krisha as a short & following production
25:30 — “playful chaos”
27:00 — Anatomy Of A Scene with Trey Edward Shults
30:25 — Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
32:00 — Paying for Nina Simone’s “Just In Time”
40:00 — Composer Briann McOmber on scoring Krisha
43:32 — Krisha, improvised
44:30 — Edward Shults’ grandmother in Krisha
Recommendations
Tim: Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008) — available on Netflix
Tay: Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994) — available on The Criterion Channel
All links verified at the time of publication and based on availability in Canada.
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