A quasi-amateur film in appearance, in black and white, less than an hour long, shot over 5 days with a few thousand dollars... But a lot of talent is brought together there. Peter Weir demonstrates a real sense of mise-en-scene and of cutting, multiplying quality cuts and researched framing. The faces are scrutinized, and the actors are surprisingly excellent. The music score is also of good quality, oscillating between the disturbing and the amusing, in accordance with the general tone of the film which will be taken up a few years later in the excellent 'The Cars That Ate Paris'. We also find here a main character who is also naive. The plot recreates basically the process of making a film, which is to bring people together in a place, ask them to do things and see what happens... Very interesting.
Review of Homesdale
