Falsehood (film)
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Director Kenneth Lui Music director Kenneth Lui Duration Language English | 8.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Short, Fantasy Screenplay Kenneth Lui Writer Kenneth Lui | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2001 Cast Timothy Brennen (The Prosecutor), Ariadne Shaffer (Snow White), Marie-Noelle Marquis (Little Red Riding Hood), Mark Irvingsen (Wolf), Anne Welles (Little Bo Peep)Similar movies Lodyssee dAlice Tremblay (2002), DysEnchanted (2004), Le dernier chaperon rouge (1996), The Uh-Oh! Show (2009), Snow White: The Sequel (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Falsehood (2001) is an award-winning short film written and directed by Kenneth Lui starring Anne Welles, Mark Irvingsen, Marie-Noelle Marquis and Stuart Proffitt. Its style is a highly visual fusion of film noir against classic fairy tale motifs. It is written in the style of a courtroom drama with neo-noir elements.
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Story
The film opens on an idyllic pasture where a young Bo Peep awakens from an ill-timed nap to find her sheep missing. After searching for her sheep with no luck, she finds bloody wool remains and believes that The Big Bad Wolf has eaten her flock. Years later, the grown up Bo Peep (Anne Welles) is working as a public defense attorney and confronts her own prejudice when shes assigned to defend The Big Bad Wolf (Mark Irvingsen) in the infamous Red Riding Hood (Marie-Noelle Marquis) rape trial.
In the tradition of fables, the film makes use of the interactions between humans and imaginary characters to explore themes of racial discrimination and hypocrisy set in a dark fairy tale world.
Cast
KCET Fine Cut
On August 16, 2002 the Sixth season of KCETs “Fine Cut – A Festival of Student Film” program aired Falsehood. Before the film began, a warning was issued for adult content, in reference to its coarse language, violence, and sexual content. An interview with writer/director Kenneth Lui was aired after the film.
Web Series
In 2011, Falsehood was re-released as a web series on StayTunedTV and blip.tv. As a web series, Falsehood was nominated by StayTunedTV for five awards: Best Drama, Best Actor in a Drama (Mark Irvingsen), Best Actress in a Drama (Anne Welles), Best Director (Kenneth Lui), and Best Writer (Kenneth Lui). It was awarded the Best Director award at the StayTunedTV/ITVFest Awards 2011.
References
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