Whoever Was Using This Bed (2016)

Directed by

Andrew Kotatko

Genre

drama

Country

Australia

Runtime

21 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple's late-night talk turns unnerving as a persistent phone caller and old resentments surface. The film is built around their strained conversation in a single setting.

tenseintimateunsettlingslow-burnconversationalclaustrophobicmeditativequieter

What happens

Whoever Was Using This Bed is a 2016 Australian short film directed by Andrew Kotatko. It is based on the short story of the same name by Raymond Carver from his 1988 collection Elephant. The film stars Jean-Marc Barr, Radha Mitchell and features the voice of Jane Birkin. The film was co-produced by Altaire Productions and Midnight Coffee Films, with post-production funds successfully raised via crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Whoever Was Using This Bed won Best Drama in the Australian Film Institute / Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts's 2016 Social Shorts competition. It is Kotatko's second adaptation of Carver's writing, the first being Everything Goes starring Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish and Sullivan Stapleton. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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