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I was confused
when the film ended, and for plainly good reasons. “The Troubled
Interviewee” is an awfully weird movie, and a movie without much of a
plot to it. Anthony Spaddacini plays himself doing his first short film,
he comes across a young girl and asks to interview her for the movie,
and she’s rather abrasive toward the request. Then they go into her
house, and we watch the girl go through all sorts of moods and
personalities answering questions that are meant as observational and
obviously antagonistic. That’s pretty much it. But, one
aspect that “The Troubled Interviewee” has going for it is that it’s
pretty funny, and it relies on the comedy to get itself out of the fact
that there's no story. Spaddacini also relies on Lynne’s acting to get us through the
film, and it works. Lynne is pretty damn funny especially when changing
moods. In one scene she pulls off what could have been a hilariously bad
scene, as she cries about bull frogs, but the crying is so obviously
fake, that she instead takes that and uses it as a quirk for the girl's
weird moods. Rather than taking it seriously, she makes
the awful crying act rather hilarious, and she even seems to be
improvising for most of it. Through the fifteen minutes you see her rant
on and on about nothing and Spaddacini eggs her on all leading up to a
finale that pretty much explains to us that Spaddacini chose the wrong
person for his first interview.
Sadly the film never goes beyond feeling like home movies, nor does it
go beyond feeling like two people making home movies and goofing around,
thus "The Troubled Interviewee" is pretty redundant even if
it's a first outing into short films. I was never sure
why he decided to go up to
anyone and interview them instead of setting something up that could
have led to a more comedic circumstance.
The fact that is
makes no clear sense really works against and in its favor. But it's a
worthy first effort with an utterly hilarious performance by its one
woman cast of Rebecca Lynne who is pretty damn funny, and it's just one big random joke with talent behind it and
some really funny jokes to it, and it works.
- For information
on Fleetstreet Films and Director Spaddacini's upcoming films, visit
his homepage:
http://www.fleetstreetfilms.com
- Director Spaddacini's
first short film.
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