Skeletons at the IFFR

"Black comedy with in which two exorcists fairly literally remove the skeletons from the cupboards from people's homes. Some fairly embarrassing secrets are revealed along the way. A case where the skeletons have hidden themselves turns the lives of all those involved. An original debut with Paprika Steen and Jason Isaacs."

One of the best parts of Skeletons is the execution of the film. How it introduces concepts, and gets you wondering about what's going on. Usually within the next 15 minutes you'll have gotten an answer to the question you had, but then more questions will be brought up. So to say anything about the plot would spoil a part of Skeletons. So I will try to step as lightly as I can around the subject matter avoiding any reveals.

Skeletons has a very vivid world that seamlessly intertwines with the real world you and I live in. Although their occupation may seem laughable at first, you soon get sucked into the film and all aspects of it seem to fit naturally. The world building is very natural, a character will mention or use something and it becomes clear what they're talking about without any effort even though you have never heard their jargon or known about these concepts before. One idea leads to the next, revealing bits at a time the development of their occupation throughout the movie goes hand in hand with the plot of the movie as they attempt new things they know to be theoretical but have never done before.

The actors bring to life these characters very well, and just as the plot develops point by point with mystery before every turn, so the actors manage to give just enough of their characters away to lead on to our suspicions of the situations they are in. They also do quite a hilarious job, often the sincerity of the characters brought more laughs than their sarcasm which was very refreshing. The characters actually funny due to themselves and the situation rather than just lines that have been written for them. Although the writing is superb as well, hilarious conversations as well as sometimes speechless dialogues and witty monologues that are thankfully subtitled. To top it all off the music for this movie is suitably eerie and well used.

The whole movie, lead up to the reveal and development of the characters is very good and a happy ending is well deserved.

Oops, did I give something away? Well, the enjoyment of this movie is in the journey also I'm pretty sure you have no idea what this movie is really about. That makes me glad for you, who has yet to watch Skeletons.

P.S. Kudos to Andrew Buckley, Paul Dallison, Tuppence Middleton, Paprika Steen and Jason Isaacs; They did a fantastic job with this one. And of course congratulations to Nick Whitfield on his debut feature film being such an amazing movie. (I saw him at the viewing by the way, it was awesome.)