Project Detail

Bitter Fruit

A woman in a purple top holding a melon and a woman in an orange top holding a coffee mug sit at a kitchen table

A woman in a grey coat and a woman in a black coat smile at each other on the pavement outside a fruit stand

Synopsis

The older Clem gets, the more friends and family encourage her to try fruit. But when she finally decides to give fruit a go, her body won't cooperate, rejecting it again and again until she realises that not everyone can have fruit after all.

Details

Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 3 min 28 sec
Format: Super 8
Director: Kristin Duffy
Producer: Kristin Duffy
Screenwriter: Kristin Duffy
Director of Photography: Kristin Duffy
Sound: Liam Eshghi-Luck
Composer: Liam Eshghi-Luck
Principal cast: Sarah Gain, Joanna Shubert, Margarita San Luis
Shoot Supervisor: Lily Kennedy

Genre

Comedy Drama Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Slackline Productions

Kristin Duffy

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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