Kill the Day

Lynn Ramsay's second short film, which was awarded the jury prize of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, is a claustrophobic study of the paranoia of a former junkie who survives by stealing credit cards. The film, which confines us to the restricted space of the protagonist’s unstable mind (which is a prisoner of his memories), demonstrates Ramsay’s inclination toward a highly subjectivised narrative (which is manifested in an intimate shooting style and an intentionally unstable narrative form) and her ability to express characters’ inner disquiet through physical manifestations. Another remarkable aspect is her work with sound, both on- and offscreen, which is more suggestive than explanatory. (29/01/2018)