Flail
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Comedy, Short Films, 03-Sep-2024
A distracted personal assistant frantically prepares for her boss’s birthday party. Ben Gauthier’s “Flail” hilariously dives into a young woman’s effort to complete an urgent errand as she battles a bombardment of phone calls, texts, and email notifications. Darting around L.A on a Saturday for balloons and a cake, Allie is also juggling a lot of family stuff and breaking up with a fling over text. Her to-do list keeps growing as complications mount — she gets stuck in a parking garage, an airport pick-up is forgotten, and of course there’s a problem with the cake. With a pounding drum and bass score and a constant stream of on-screen iPhone overlays, it’s a film that perfectly captures the obtrusive immediacy of our current digital lives. -JM. Director: Ben Gauthier. Cast: Allie Levitan, David Brown. DP: Brody Anderson. Editor: Glenn Fellman. Producers: Jack Forbes, Maddie Thomas. Music: Justin Enoch. Titles: William Stehlik.
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