Director Tarun Gupta manages to create a rather solid tragic drama that spends more time exploring its directing methods than telling a story. Not that that’s a bad thing, but as a film I’d have loved to learn more about the characters. Though with the limited time it has, director Gupta manages to derive a lot of interesting performances from the cast, as well as exploring the fading of love in a world that glamorizes it.
Told through flashback, “Remorse” is a short that shows the obliteration of love throughout the years, and how a picturesque love tale turned in to a union of two bitter people wanting different things. I was never too sure why the husband was angry, and why the wife wanted so much in the way of love and whatnot. A lot of it seemed forced and somewhat inexplicable, especially when we’re never sure why the husband is so angry.
But in the end, “Remorse” still manages to make up for its lack of exposition with some great camera work, and tonal changes that contrast times of happiness with times of woe and sadness. You kind of have to wonder where it all went so sour and why the marriage became so terrible for them. I really liked the camera work from Gupta, and the final scene that works well with crafty editing. I would have loved much more emphasis on characters, but in the end “Remorse” works as a short drama.