FANTASIA 2017: Capone looks at the world of LOWLIFE and the Cambodian actioner JAILBREAK

FANTASIA 2017: Capone looks at the world of LOWLIFE and the Cambodian actioner JAILBREAK

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Hey everyone. Capone back from Montreal, but catching up on my few days in the life of this year’s premier genre fest, Fantasia International Film Festival. So let’s dive in… LOWLIFE Probably my favorite offering from Fantasia Festival this year is LOWLIFE, the feature debut from director and co-writer Ryan Prows (who shares the writing credit with four others, which makes sense when you see the film). The film might be the most Tarantino-esque work I’ve ever seen that isn’t blatantly trying to ape Tarantino’s writing style or use of classic music cues/scores. Instead, it feels like a brutal, often explicit, stripping away of any facade that still exists to hide society’s gross and desperate underbelly. The structure of the film is perhaps the most impressive things about LOWLIFE, as it divides its strange and melancholy tales into chapters, each one focusing on another main character, all of whom are spiraling to a final moment together. A main character in one story becomes a background player in another; and we experience certain scenes from multiple perspectives, with each successive sequences revealing a little bit more than the one prior. Prows and his squadron of writers are certainly not the first to tell as story this way, but this is certainly one of the more effective uses of the technique I’ve seen in quite a while. Set in Southern California, the film not surprisingly blends Mexican culture into its American crime story, thanks in great part to the

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