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A mother protects.
Lux is a young mother who is visiting her boyfriend's family in a well-appointed suburb. The couple is there for a family gathering and to introduce their infant son to his family, and Lux is particularly nervous, having never met these members of the family before.
Lux and Hunter aren't comfortable, but they do their best to blend in and enjoy the day, though Lux feels uneasy around Hunter's sister Kate and her probing questions. But when Lux and her baby have a mishap, the unspoken tensions come out into the open, sending Lux scrambling to protect her baby at all costs.
Directed and written by Hrishi Bardhan, this unsettling short drama deftly builds suspense as it follows one mother and her young family as they grapple with a tense situation, complicated by the unspoken judgments and circumstances that surround them. Situating itself in a milieu of dark, quietly dysfunctional suburbia, it takes the notion of the all-encompassing "mama bear" motherhood and turns it on its head, parlaying a tense domestic drama into something approaching thriller-like suspense.
Inspired by events from the writer-director's childhood, the concise, subtle yet quicksilver storytelling deftly charts Lux and the initial dramatic situation, as well as her uncertainty as a young mother meeting her boyfriend's sister for the first time. Actor Illahi Rayani's performance as Lux gets at her wariness and tentativeness, and we quickly sense Lux and Hunter are out of their depth in this prosperous yet disquieting suburb. But nothing makes Lux more defensive and watchful than Hunter's sister Kate, played by actor Myra Thibault, who perfectly balances a surface politeness with cold scrutiny in her questions for Lux. As Kate and Lux get to know one another at the family outing, Lux senses Kate's skepticism and judgment, as well as the higher socioeconomic status she holds.
Part of the film's tension comes from the film's well-considered visual style, which appears moodily naturalistic at first, but complicates with ominously floating camera movement and a searching, lingering gaze. Coupled with the eerie ambient sound and score, it's almost as if the camera is looking or waiting for something to happen. Which it does, and quite explosively, as a mishap with hot water quickly escalates into a crisis situation. The film expertly escalates the emotions to near-operatic levels, as anxiety builds into panic and quiet social judgment quickens into threatening overreaction, and then the possibility of a genuine crisis for Lux. She panics, in an urge to protect her baby at any cost. That cost is considerable, propelling the conclusion of BLISTER into a dark spiral that leaves Lux and the audience in a visceral yet dissociative place, dark and dreamlike like the womb itself.
BLISTER. Courtesy of Hrishi Bardhan at https://hrishibardhan.com.
Lux is a young mother who is visiting her boyfriend's family in a well-appointed suburb. The couple is there for a family gathering and to introduce their infant son to his family, and Lux is particularly nervous, having never met these members of the family before.
Lux and Hunter aren't comfortable, but they do their best to blend in and enjoy the day, though Lux feels uneasy around Hunter's sister Kate and her probing questions. But when Lux and her baby have a mishap, the unspoken tensions come out into the open, sending Lux scrambling to protect her baby at all costs.
Directed and written by Hrishi Bardhan, this unsettling short drama deftly builds suspense as it follows one mother and her young family as they grapple with a tense situation, complicated by the unspoken judgments and circumstances that surround them. Situating itself in a milieu of dark, quietly dysfunctional suburbia, it takes the notion of the all-encompassing "mama bear" motherhood and turns it on its head, parlaying a tense domestic drama into something approaching thriller-like suspense.
Inspired by events from the writer-director's childhood, the concise, subtle yet quicksilver storytelling deftly charts Lux and the initial dramatic situation, as well as her uncertainty as a young mother meeting her boyfriend's sister for the first time. Actor Illahi Rayani's performance as Lux gets at her wariness and tentativeness, and we quickly sense Lux and Hunter are out of their depth in this prosperous yet disquieting suburb. But nothing makes Lux more defensive and watchful than Hunter's sister Kate, played by actor Myra Thibault, who perfectly balances a surface politeness with cold scrutiny in her questions for Lux. As Kate and Lux get to know one another at the family outing, Lux senses Kate's skepticism and judgment, as well as the higher socioeconomic status she holds.
Part of the film's tension comes from the film's well-considered visual style, which appears moodily naturalistic at first, but complicates with ominously floating camera movement and a searching, lingering gaze. Coupled with the eerie ambient sound and score, it's almost as if the camera is looking or waiting for something to happen. Which it does, and quite explosively, as a mishap with hot water quickly escalates into a crisis situation. The film expertly escalates the emotions to near-operatic levels, as anxiety builds into panic and quiet social judgment quickens into threatening overreaction, and then the possibility of a genuine crisis for Lux. She panics, in an urge to protect her baby at any cost. That cost is considerable, propelling the conclusion of BLISTER into a dark spiral that leaves Lux and the audience in a visceral yet dissociative place, dark and dreamlike like the womb itself.
BLISTER. Courtesy of Hrishi Bardhan at https://hrishibardhan.com.
