After watching and enjoying several of Dennis Villeneuve's full-length features, I decided to delve into his previous efforts in filmmaking, leading me to watch his short film Next Floor.
It is an extremely well accomplished film, be it in terms of photography, which possesses an eerie and provoking quality, or in terms of sets, costumes and makeup which are all complexly meticulous in striving to build the bizarre and uneasy atmosphere. Even the speechless acting conveys through facial expressions so much of that nonconformist and idiosyncratic mood. As an excellent counterpoint to the grotesqueness of the images, there is the beautiful chamber music and the chorus of detailed sound effects which create an impressively tense and nerve-wracking feel.
In Next…