SSC 03: Krisha (Trey Edward Shults, 2015) — Excising Our Personal Demons
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English - June 15, 2021 13:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsFilm Reviews TV & Film film review movies criticism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tim and Tay discuss Trey Edward Shults’ feature debut Krisha, its expert use of horror tropes and its endlessly frugal composition.
Krisha is a 2015 family drama about a recovering addict and alcoholic in her sixties attempting to reconnect with her family over Thanksgiving. Directed by Trey Edward Shults, Krisha stars his real-life aunt Krisha Fairchild in the eponymous lead role, and was produced on a crowd-sourced, shoe-string budget.
Krisha is available as a digital rental on iTunes.
Scene (51:39 — 55:18)
Starring Krisha Fairchild as Krisha, Robyn Fairchild as Robyn, Bill Wise as Doyle & Trey Edward Shults as Trey.
After a series of seemingly traumatic encounters with her mother and Trey, Krisha relapses, unceremoniously uncorking a bottle of wine with a pair of scissors in her bathroom. She guzzles back the bottle, entering an almost dream-like, euphoric state. Returning to her family downstairs for final dinner preparations, Krisha attempts to remove the giant family-sized Thanksgiving turkey from the oven. Her hands tremble and the turkey falls to the floor, creating an enormous mess and ruining the family dinner.
Links
3:00 — Krisha’s many awards
3:30 — Krisha as a short & following production
25:30 — “playful chaos”
27:00 — Anatomy Of A Scene with Trey Edward Shults
30:25 — Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
32:00 — Paying for Nina Simone’s “Just In Time”
40:00 — Composer Briann McOmber on scoring Krisha
43:32 — Krisha, improvised
44:30 — Edward Shults’ grandmother in Krisha
Recommendations
Tim: Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008) — available on Netflix
Tay: Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994) — available on The Criterion Channel
All links verified at the time of publication and based on availability in Canada.
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