Project Detail

Refuge

Synopsis

This subtle, elliptic film follows a couple who return to the place they first met, exotic and seductive Goa, in the hope that this holiday will lift them out of the emotional and sexual despondency that their relationship has lapsed into.

However, they remain trapped in their pattern of social routine, until their encounter with a beautiful, enigmatic girl initiates a confrontation between husband and wife, which uncovers the secrets they had kept from themselves and each other.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of project: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Format: DV
Director: Narain Jashanmal
Producer: Micky Jagtiani
Executive Producer: Micky Jagtiani
Editor: Peter Sabat
Screenwriter: Narain Jashanmal
Director of Photography: Tom Grubbs
Sound: SK Shrivastava
Principal cast: Sarita Choudhury, Madeleine Potter, Philip Tabor, Dalip Tahil, Arif Zakaria, Payal Rohatg

Genre

Asian Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Park and 60 Seconds Productions

97b Lexham Gardens, London W8 6JN
UK

T+44 (0)77 9969 2542

parkand60second@hotmail.com

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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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