We all make bad life choices. Some are easily rectified, others are so cataclysmically awful that you regret them for the rest of your life. Just ask Prince Harry. But those choices are what Barbara (Eve Connolly) ponders in a voice over as the camera casts its eye over body strewn carnage illuminated by a flaming building. So just how did Barbara get to that point in her life? It turns out that that is just one possible consequence of a choice she makes in Sew Torn, a film of three parts.
Barbara is a seamstress, still getting over the death of her mother who has also left her in charge of the family haberdashery business that’s now on the closing down. The three stories that make up Sew Torn are instigated by an appointment Barbara with an acerbic tongued mature bridezilla that has the seamstress on edge as she sews on a button which she drops, and watches it roll across the floor towards a vent. It’s a moment where what she decides to do about that button will pivot her into one of three ultimate consequences.
It sees Barbara driving back to the shop along an empty road where she encounters the aftermath of a road accident with two motorcyclists both badly injured along with two guns, a briefcase of money and a bag of white powder spilt across the road. ‘Pefect crime…call the police,…. drive away’ says her voiceover / inner monologue and it is those three choices that are individually explored to their conclusions all ending differently.
Written and directed by Freddy MacDonald its Coen-esque in the best way possible. Quirky set pieces often using Barbara’s skills as a seamstress are like nothing you’ve seen before and is part of the films many charms led by a fragile yet steely Eve Connolly and several decent supporting roles led by John Lynch as a violent drug dealer and K. Callan as an elderly town sheriff cum wedding registrar and all three stories are wildly different. Much like the recent, ‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ another singularly quirky thriller, this has gone to streaming whereas both films deserved a big screen outing but it rewards searching out for something that’s a cut above the norm.
related feature : ‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ – reviewed here along with a cast interview
related feature : ‘Last Stop in Yuma County’ – actors Jim Cummings & Richard Brake chat about the terrific new thriller
Here’s the Sew Tron trailer….
Sew Torn is on UK and Ireland digital platforms on 31st March from Vertigo Releasing
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