Director: Penelope Buitenhuis
Genre: Drama
This movie sounded quite intriguing; a group of people come together for a dinner party/ wake to discuss a situation that arose during the production of the departed director’s Hamlet. His final wish was for them to reveal the truth of what happened, so that his name could be cleared.
The problem was that “what happened” was bundled around so many other things that happened at the same time. An actress, who’s dating one of the actors, claims that the director raped her. She cries to one of the producers, thus ending the production because the producer (who’s actually a closet homosexual) alerts the media of what’s happened. The boyfriend, who is actually in love with another one of the actresses, moves to LA. The actress he’s actually in love with is having an affair with the director, and you find out at the wake that she had the director’s child. Oh, and there is another producer or actress who is in love with the director. There was so much to keep track of in this film, that it became exhausting every time they revealed another truth.
Maybe this is how the story of Hamlet goes- one story intertwined in another- but I wouldn’t know that since I have never seen it nor read the play. Maybe I wouldn’t have been so overwhelmed with every bit of information if I had known to look for the Hamlet references.
Alyssa did know the play, so she predicted the ending, but I had not. Although the whole dramatic, real life Hamlet was a bit much to take in all at once, it was an enjoyable story to watch unravel, and the ending was a pleasant surprise, at least for me.
