Magic Kisa (2008)

Recommended

France

Short Film

Writer/Director: Mathieu Saliva

Cinematographer: Xavier Arias

Composer: Olivier Cussac

Cast: Christophe Laubion, Marie Vernalde, Dominique Bettenfeld, Nathalie Hauwelle

Saliva’s entertaining who-did-what-to-whom-and-why – following the exploits an ex-con, just released from prison, who adopts his twin brother’s identity (wife, child, dodgy deals, and all) – is an expertly crafted and convincingly acted (if all too short) blackly comic gem that would suggest that Saliva is a talent to watch. Iain.Stott