TORONTO AFTER DARK 2009: NEXT FLOOR
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10:38AM | Erika Szabo 
Released: 2008
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Runtime: 11 min.
Screened Fri, Aug. 21, 7 pm, in front of Closing Gala feature Grace
Although Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009 has come and gone, there's still plenty of room to speculate the many films that had mesmerized us, disappointed us or even shocked us. Having attended the Closing Night Gala, I had a chance to experience a film that I'd never heard of, yet quickly became astonished by. While I had been pining for Grace that entire week (or rather, months) the fact that I enjoyed the preceding short film more still surprises me. Juxtaposing formality and absurdity, "Next Floor" is a rare experience not worth missing.
"Next Floor" is, as the synopsis states, literally a visual feast. Without giving anything away, the short revolves around a deliciously macabre and grotesque dinner party, with enough baroque sensibilities to rival Jan Svankmajer's finest works. Denis Villeneuve takes a simple premise and extends it to its absolute extremes, and allows us to speculate the vicious circle that quickly unfolds. Villeneuve was clever enough to allow us only a peak into this bizarre premise, yet even a peak was enough to wet our appetites.
"Next Floor" Trailer
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