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6.0/10 • 2

2024-09-131h 35m

Drama

A young man spends most of his time recording self-tapes for parts he never gets. After multiple rejections for a series of nightmarish commercial auditions, he takes it upon himself to find a new part to play.

Directors
Naqqash Khalid
Editors
Ricardo Saraiva

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Amir El-Masry

    Amir El-Masry

    Conrad

  2. Rory Fleck-Byrne

    Rory Fleck-Byrne

    Bo

  3. Nabhaan Rizwan

    Nabhaan Rizwan

    Aden

  4. Antonio Aakeel

    Antonio Aakeel

    Actor Who Books Everything

  5. Josie Walker

    Josie Walker

    Joanna

  6. Naomi Radcliffe

    Naomi Radcliffe

    Therapist

  7. Aston McAuley

    Aston McAuley

  8. Hussina Raja

    Hussina Raja

    Production Assistant

  9. Sean Croke

    Sean Croke

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CinemaSerf

Sep 22, 2024

6/10

The camera clearly loves Nabhaan Rizwan in this quirky tale of would-be actor "Aden" who spends most of his life travelling from audition to photo-shoot then back to an audition without ever getting a call back. It's clear that he's swimming against a tide of hundreds of like-minded aspirants and it's hard to see how he's going to break his duck. He shares a flat with the permanently over-tired doctor "Bo" (Rory Fleck Byrne) but maybe things could pick up with their debonaire new sharer "Conrad" (Amir El-Masry) shows up. Might his luck be about to improve? Or - might our friend have taken a bit of a leap into an alternate reality where his sub-conscious has started to change the repetitive dynamic of his life from one of repeated rejection to one of potential. By mid-way through, it's not at all clear to us just what is real and what might not be - and it's quite a bamboozling feeling to have! Rizwan brings some charisma to his frustrated role, certainly, and there's some genuinely funny moments to be taken from his increasing despondency, but somehow I found the whole thing just a bit too disjointed and the characterisations undercooked. He is obviously a British-Asian, but are his experiences seeking success with his chosen career likely to be any less disappointing that anyone from a different background/ethnicity? I'm assuming 99% of people who embark on this sort of path end up working on tables and only ever see the bright lights of their shaving mirror? If it's trying to illustrate a complex sense of anxiety and it's consequences, then it misses completely, I'm afraid. Why should we care about the self-inflicted misery of a great looking man who could just easily go and do something else? Though I did like the exploratory premiss that director Naqqash Khalid is trying to take, I just felt too much was left undeveloped. It's worth a watch, and I'm sure we will see more from both the leading creatives here - but this one, I'm not sure I will remember for long.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
auditionindependent filmactorpsychological drama