The film tells a tale of love, loss and betrayal. Deploying Brechtian techniques of distancing and playing with the idea of suspended disbelief, the story centres around Lori, a female Chinese filmmaker, visiting the old village of Thaxted to look for the subject of her next film. She encounters characters both dead and alive, each offering an insight into England’s past and present state. From the ghost of an early 20th century radical Christian socialist vicar to a man haunted by betrayal and the sudden return into his life of his petty criminal friend, and Maggie, the wife of a deceased dancer.
This Blessed Plot
Marc Isaacs
2023
United Kingdom
75’