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| "Given that it's not a horror flick, who among us wouldn't be
curious about something called FLESH SUITCASE. Shot in 17 days on an astonishing $67,000
budget, director Paul Duran's ambitious feature debut is...a pleasantly tense study
of the interpersonal and intestinal tensions of a pair of drug smugglers at the end of a
run." — LA Weekly "FLESH SUITCASE is a wickedly entertaining dark comedy, a
constantly surprising first film about an alimentary caper." "First-time feature director Paul Duran...proves adroit in conveying the
pressure cooker environment of his tale...an intricate latticework of characters and plot
twists, deceits and reversals." "Paul Duran’s strange, bleakly comic thriller...is claustrophobic and
intense, a shotgun wedding of early-Pinter austerity and Jim Thompson nihilism...With
scalpel-like precision, Duran builds a mood of darkly ironic humor. Each shot... adds
another incision of anxiety. The narrative is punctuated by some tricky flashbacks, more
daring than PULP FICTION’s overpraised juggling of chronology. From the leading
players to the minor characters, the cast is uniformly accomplished." "Another cool scavenger find is FLESH SUITCASE, a Cassavetes-style improv in
moody paranoia between two heroin dealers locked in a hotel room." "...This half-satirical, half-serious crime drama manages to linger in your
memory long after it is over...One sequence, however, is undeniably brilliant...a stunning
bit, one of the most memorable onscreen images this year’s (Fort Lauderdale
International) festival has to offer." "..A brilliant style-over-substance crosscut that moves between a sensually
explicit love scene and a "heroin harvest"...Not for the faint of heart.
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