Reality gets a workout in Nick Beaubien‘s very stylized short film Manifest Breakfast. A mysterious, muddy stranger (Marc Vos) walks into an all-night diner and, in short order, the other patrons begin exhibiting bizarre behavior. A waitress hops into a policeman’s lap. A happy couple get into a bloody brawl. Food piles up under the heat lamps. And what connection, if any, does a recent botched bank robbery play in the proceedings?
Beaubien, who also wrote the script, fills his film with nice visual details and dialogue tidbits that connect across long stretches of time between them, creating a coherent narrative out of a fractional representation of reality.
The first great example of this is the extended opening title sequence that includes a slow zoom into a mop swishing water back and forth across the diner floor. So, when a few scenes later the main character enters with extremely muddy boots,...
Beaubien, who also wrote the script, fills his film with nice visual details and dialogue tidbits that connect across long stretches of time between them, creating a coherent narrative out of a fractional representation of reality.
The first great example of this is the extended opening title sequence that includes a slow zoom into a mop swishing water back and forth across the diner floor. So, when a few scenes later the main character enters with extremely muddy boots,...
- 6/22/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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