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Lunch Links: GIRLFRIENDS (aka AMIES)

Posted By Julius Kassendorf on May 14, 2020 in News | Leave a response

NSFW: Violence

GIRLFRIENDS from Travelling distribution on Vimeo.

There’s something of a joke in my shorts screening committee at the queer film festival. The committee head wants to see queer people fall in love and learn about themselves while I want to see us kill each other. In that light, I fell in love with Marie Davignon’s lesbian thriller Amies (aka Girlfriends). This short hooked me right from the beginning with an opening credits homage to Michael Haneke’s Funny Games. It’s a tense savage thriller about 3 teenage girls who are in a lovers’ triangle reunited after one returns from college to bounce around the countryside during summer vacation.

Amies is a film about friendship and destruction, sex and jealousy, and a complicated galaxy of teenage emotion when romance is still fawning and new. The savageness at the heart of this short is one of the most thrilling feelings that also completely deflates the viewers. The faint of heart need not apply.

Posted in News | Tagged Amies, Foreign, French, Girlfriends, LGBTQ, Lunch Links, Marie Davignon, Short, Short Film, Thriller

About the Author

Julius Kassendorf

Julius Kassendorf is the founder of The-Solute, and previously founded The Other FIlms and Project Runaways in 2013. There, he dabbled in form within reviews to better textualize thought processes about the medium of film.

Previously, he has blogged at other, now-defunct, websites that you probably haven’t heard of, and had a boyfriend in Canada for many years. Julius resides in Seattle, where he enjoys the full life of the Seattle Film Community.

Julius’ commanding rule about film: Don’t Be Common. He believes the worst thing in the world is for a film to be like every other film, with a secondary crime of being a film with little to no ambition.

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