{"id":22006,"date":"2016-08-20T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22006"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:10:37","slug":"shes-allergic-to-cats-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/20\/shes-allergic-to-cats-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"She\u2019s Allergic to Cats (2016) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"allergictocats\"<\/a>Life is hard in Hollywood for a budding filmmaker who works as a dog groomer to make ends meet.\u00a0 As he struggles to survive and get his career going, Mike Pinkney daydreams and makes experimental videos and meets the girl of his dreams.\u00a0 As he tries to get his future to be good, he struggles through work, with his dreams, with his rat infested apartment, his landlord, and his possible relationship.<\/p>\n

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She\u2019s Allergic to Cats is written and directed by Michael Reich who creates the cinematic equivalent of mixed media art.\u00a0 Here he collages images on top of images with typed text and what looks like newspaper cut outs at times.\u00a0 The film boasts few characters, about a dozen, with two leads that are falling in love amongst the chaos.\u00a0 His film is literally layered at times with image pile ups, forcing the viewer to pay attention at all times unless they do not mind missing something.\u00a0 This is done in an interesting way that comes off as experimental and retro at the same time.\u00a0 Once one gets used to the video quality of the film, getting into its story and style becomes easy and the film becomes rather interesting.\u00a0 The story is not all that original but its execution is what allows the film to stay fresh and entertaining.<\/p>\n

The lead in an eponymous role is Mike Pinkney who does poor schlep well, showing a down trotted man who has almost given up.\u00a0 His part is not super complex so he doesn\u2019t get to really stretch his acting chops much as it would have been good to see more variety, a more complex arc.\u00a0 Supporting Pinkney is Sonja Kinski as Cora.\u00a0 She is charming and sexy, plays her part a bit cold which seems to be on purpose and which unfortunately does not make her all that much of a dream girl to this reviewer.\u00a0 A few other characters get decent screen time with Honey Davis as Mike\u2019s landlord Honey showing the most talent playing up his character\u2019s weird and creepy side.<\/p>\n

The way She\u2019s Allergic to Cats is made, the whole (small) crew did great with Michael Reich\u2019s vision.\u00a0 Cinematography by Zach Driscoll and film editing by Forrest Brie pair up with special effects supervised by Mike Pinkney.\u00a0 All of this comes together to build an odd and almost fascinating mix of images and styles.\u00a0 Images overlay on other images to create something visually loud.\u00a0 The film has a video look that is very purposeful and sometimes uneven to emphasize this.\u00a0 Everything is planned down to the sunglasses wearing dog and the dark scenes of bananas.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s Allergic to Cats is light experimental fair, easy to digest, and entertaining, but it probably won\u2019t make a huge mark on most viewers.\u00a0 The style is interesting and visually cacophonic, the characters are simple and so is the story.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth a watch for its style alone.<\/p>\n

Fantasia International Film Festival ran from July 14th<\/sup> until August 3rd<\/sup>, 2016 and will be back in the summer of 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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