WEREWOLF trailer - A film by Ashley McKenzie from Factory 25 on Vimeo.
“An intoxicating first feature from a rising filmmaker.” — THE PLAYLIST
"The New Ken Loach is in Canada." — ROLLING STONE FRANCE
“Werewolf,” isn’t a horror movie in substance but in spirit. McKenzie fuses a documentary-like observational precision with a creative imagination that endows her characters’ struggles with a quietly monumental grandeur." — THE NEW YORKER
The hardscrabble existence of two homeless addicts is portrayed with sensitivity and brutal honesty in acclaimed filmmaker Ashley McKenzie’s debut feature. Shot almost entirely in oblique close-ups to capture the disorientation and frustration of McKenzie’s characters, twentysomething junkies Blaise and Vanessa, Werewolf doggedly and courageously refuses to romanticize its characters lives. Sleeping in tents, fighting with government bureaucrats, Blaise and Vanessa survive primarily through an underground economy. They harass people to let them cut their grass with a rusty old mower they haul over dirt roads and through rainstorms. Such scenes capture the futility, toil, and frustration in their lives with startling power, like some crack-addled version of the Stations of the Cross.
Written, Directed and Edited by Ashley McKenzie Produced by Nelson MacDonald and Ashley McKenzie Cinematography by Scott Moore Music by Youth Haunts
Cast: Blaise Andrew Gillis and Nessa Bhreagh MacNeil Festivals: Toronto Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, IndieLisboa and more...