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Cannes Video: Lodge Kerrigan’s Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
By offering three films in one, Lodge Kerrigan definitely challenges the biopic format – challenges it to the point that we won’t be grouping alongside examples of Todd Haynes’ inventiveness. In one instant, this deconstructs the docu-form, in an other gesture it comes off as celluloid scrapings from the cutting room floor and is interwoven with what I’m calling his Keane aesthetic.
By offering three films in one, Lodge Kerrigan definitely challenges the biopic format – challenges it to the point that we won’t be grouping alongside examples of Todd Haynes’ inventiveness. In one instant, this deconstructs the docu-form, in an other gesture it comes off as celluloid scrapings from the cutting room floor and is interwoven with what I’m calling his Keane aesthetic – a photography that could say so much about the character’s mindset, or in the case Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) adds little commentary about an actress finding her way. A less than satisfying result, this is one you’ll want to supplement with one of Kerrigan’s other works. Here is the opening night presentation for the Un Certain Regard film.
