Cast overview: | |||
Claire Coffee | ... | Ashleigh | |
Mark Webber | ... | Eric | |
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Phoebe Sinclair | ... | Wren |
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George Sinclair | ... | Gus |
Ruha Taslimi | ... | Miriam | |
Kristin Slaysman | ... | Rachel | |
Trae Harris | ... | Tez | |
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Jessica Coulter | ... | Ellie |
Camille Chen | ... | Marie | |
Tara Copeland | ... | Jess | |
Amy French | ... | Elizabeth | |
Dreama Walker | ... | Becca |
An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks.
I saw this at a festival having been told this is a film 'every woman should see' but that is to underestimate a perfectly executed and multi-layered short film. As a stay-at-home husband and father who has seen the profound weight of responsibility that falls on the mother's shoulders - even when she's not necessarily present - Blocks felt painfully true to life and captures wonderfully not only the truisms that underpin so many family dynamics, but does it in a brilliantly observed and refreshing way. It's glued together by a wonderful central performance by Claire Coffee who - certainly from the response to the screening I attended - perfectly captured and conveyed the experiences and emotions of so many mothers! I'll never look at a Lego brick the same way again.