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Zoe, a young teenage girl, is lured into an after hours carnival tent by the sleazy rock n roll carnie Rimo, and gets more then she bargained for. It's up to the mysterious Princess, star of the new knife show, to pull her out of the wolf's den.
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Review by Ginose
Added: September 23, 2010
Holy shit, I'm pissed it took me so long to watch this one. With my schedule the way it's been, lately, it's been more and more difficult to find time to watch movies, much less actually write reviews. Fuck, so much to do and so little time, but I don't think I've ever been so upset to miss out on watching a film as I was with this action-packed, visual force to be reckoned with... especially upset that it would have only taken 11 minutes to do so... because "Red Princess Blues" is awesome. Really, fucking awesome.
So, after a long day of carnival work, the carnies all make they're way to the wonderful little carnival water-hole, where they spend their hard-earned carnie-money on liquor and have their way with various women seduced into their drinking tent. Tonight, however, a young-girl by the name of Zoe has wandered into the debauchery den under the impression of Rimo, a rather forcefully charming worker with a worst attitude than it appears. Zoe has, in essence, bit off a bit more than she can chew here, but what can she do? Her only salvation is by the hands of the carnival's newest knife-throwing act, Princess. The Red Princess of the Blades.
Alex Ferrari has EASILY turned into one of my favorite independent filmmakers working today. He has, single-handedly, crafted a unique style of action and visual-mystique that I've been able to cite as one of the most original use of art-direction and action-choreography I've seen in recent films today. In running-times of less than 15-minutes, he creates characters, settings and action that take most directors and hour plus to craft. "Red Princess Blues" is definitely no exception, and is probably his most ambitious work to date.
The short turns out some gorgeous art-direction, excellent characters and, above most else, one of the best fight-scenes in the history of short-film; possibly surpassing his previous work on "Cyn" and "Broken".
Equally fun and involving is Richard Tyson as Rimo, the slummy, sex-starved carnie who manipulated young Zoe into his den. He pulls of the perfect middle ground between slimy and charismatic, so much so that it's all the more fun to watch his shit get beaten in by the film's climax. Truly, Ferrari knew exactly how to set-up his characters without much more than setting and very little exposition, something most films fuck-up without even trying.
I can appreciate a good action film, and I can appreciate a good action short, but something so stylish and creating a world through visuals alone is a feat. It's pretty a fantastic short, and if the feature (allegedly in production) doesn't make an appearance soon it will be a horrible injustice.
9/10.
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