Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Review by Mark Woodring
French, with English Subtitles.
Don’t let that fool you, though.
**NOTE: this post may be updated with audio once we actually have the chance to talk about it. Until then, you can read Mark’s review below. Remember, though, you can listen to all our discussions of this and every other movie directly over on ACAST. Stay tuned.**
90 Minutes, Not Rated
Written by Christine Doyon & Ariane Louis-Seize
Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize
Synopsis:
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.
What do you get when you have a conscience-ridden vampire living at home with her parents?
One part Failure to Launch, one part Bones and All, and one part generic rom-com, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person brings the best of all those genres together into one tidy (if subtitled) package.
The performances here are absolutely topic notch, with totally believable (and recognizable) teens/young adults, parents, counselors, and obnoxious relatives.
Sure, they all happen to be vampires, but universal truths are universal truths.
It’s also interesting to consider that the vampire culture has its own evolved what of not only finding their various victims, but also a network of actual doctors, equipped to diagnose and treat vampire-specific issues.
Watch as each of our leads tries to make it through the film without doing the one thing they’re supposed to be doing, and how their choices lead to consequences both predictable and unintended.
Not a full-on horror, nor a family drama, nor even the aforementioned rom-com, but with moments which perfectly encapsulate those genres, while simultaneously lending them a bit of flavor you might not expect.
And the ending? Ah, a thing of beauty.
Sara Montpetit is a really fantastic young actress, with a bright and expressive face, and an equally bright future, I think.
I’m always concerned when I happen across a good, solid movie that I know folks would enjoy if they can just get past theeed to read (unless you’re fluent in French, in this case). I hate that a film like this one could easily fall through the cracks.
Don’t let this happen to Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. Seek it out for yourself and watch it.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is in theaters now and stars Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Noémie O’Farrell, Marie Brassard, Lilas-Rose Cantin, Gabriel-Antoine Roy, Madeleine Péloquin, Arnaud Vachon, Valence Laroche, Isabelle Villalba, Marc Beaupré, Patrick Hivon, Micheline Bernard, Ariane Castellanos
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