Rogue Cinema's "Miranda" Review

Rogue Cinema recently reviewed our short film Miranda (winner of the Audience Choice award in Texas), written and directed by Kent Sutton! Here it is below:

"Miranda seems to have it all. We begin at her engagement party where she is celebrating her forthcoming nuptials with the smooth, suave Arthur. The happy couple is perfect together, with beautiful Miranda in a short black dress and Arthur dressed to the nines in an expensive pinstripe suit. As the camera pans across the room, we first meet Miranda and her girlfriends who are "oohing" and "aahing" over the engagement ring. We then meet Arthur as he tells the romantic story of how he proposed at an expensive restaurant by surprising Miranda with a ring in her dessert.

But all is not as it seems. Shortly after Miranda's best friend makes a toast, Miranda excuses herself and heads for the kitchen. Cut to Miranda's memory of a recent event where Arthur catches her talking to a male patron at the library in which she works. Miranda had dropped a book, probably due to her injured fingers (in a clever and subtle hint of things to come) that are taped together and the patron chivalrously tries to help her pick up the book. In walks Arthur, obviously unhappy. In the next scene, Arthur stops the car in front of Miranda's house and begins to pick a fight with her. The argument devolves into a shouting match and ends up with Arthur cursing, belittling and actually hitting Miranda while Miranda whimpers her apologies over and over. What we have is a clear-cut case of abuse. The film ends with Miranda wiping the tears from her face as she stands in the kitchen, mentally preparing herself to play the smiling bride-to-be as she walks back out to the party."

Full piece HERE.