Elias Savada

THEY WILL OUTLIVE US ALL

By Elias Savada | February 2014

Director Shearer plays the film for sly laughs, whether his camera is hovering over his actors, waiting for them to react to the sludge in their environment. Or he bombards our aural senses with a weird soundtrack of singing cats…

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