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 – 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.