{"id":19459,"date":"2012-02-13T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19459"},"modified":"2012-02-13T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T22:13:10","slug":"shuffle-kurt-kuenne-2011-usa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19459","title":{"rendered":"Shuffle (Kurt Kuenne, 2011): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Truman Kewley. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"\"The film Shuffle was produced on a very low budge, but it’s low budget did not get in the way of it’s awesome story telling. \u00a0Shuffle was one of the most enjoyable films I had the\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to see at the SBIFF. \u00a0The film was shot in black and white witch some might think it would take away from the movie but actually it helped create more tension during dramatic moments in the film. \u00a0The black and white really made this film stand out. \u00a0The film Shuffle has a very interesting story line and I would recommend everyone to check it out.<\/p>\n

I saw the film Shuffle at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. \u00a0The film was\u00a0written, directed, and composed Kurt Kuenne. \u00a0He not only did that he also did all the lighting witch was a critical tool used in this film. \u00a0Kurt’s ability to\u00a0create\u00a0tension\u00a0and even humor using shadows and low light situations was very impressive. \u00a0The main star of this film was\u00a0T.J. Thyne and he did a wonderful job of seeming real and confused\u00a0every time\u00a0his character would wake up. \u00a0T.J. had to play many different ages threw out this film and each age seemed very\u00a0believable.<\/p>\n

The film Shuffle is about a man named\u00a0Lovell Milo a man with a sleeping disorder. \u00a0Not only does he have a sleeping disorder, every time Milo falls a sleep he wakes up a different age in his life. \u00a0He could go to sleep as a 21 year old and wake up as an 8 year old boy. \u00a0The film fallows Milo as he tries to figure out why he wakes up a different age and what the purpose of that is. \u00a0Paula Rhodes was the supporting actress and played the part of Grace, Milo’s girlfriend from childhood who he eventually married. \u00a0Graces character was very well acted and worked well with the character Milo.<\/p>\n

There were many\u00a0significant\u00a0aspects of the film Shuffle that made it a great movie. \u00a0The fact that it was in black and white helped make this film stand out as well as it’s super unique story. \u00a0The acting in the film was very well done and I believe the characters\u00a0meant\u00a0what they were saying. \u00a0There is a scene where the main character Milo is screaming at his father and that scene was\u00a0incredibly\u00a0real. \u00a0The main star did a great job. \u00a0The lighting of the film was very significant to the film as well. The lighting helped create the moods and really gave you a great black and white film.<\/p>\n

The only other black and white film at the Santa Barbara international film festival was the film The Artist. \u00a0I did not have the\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to see The Artist but I was told it was silent. \u00a0I can not compare the films but I can say Shuffle was very entertaining.<\/p>\n

The film Shuffle is\u00a0definitely\u00a0worth the time to check it out. \u00a0I really enjoyed it and if they had, had another showing I would have\u00a0definitely\u00a0went and watched it again. \u00a0The director was very humble and excited at the reaction from the audience. \u00a0If you enjoy good\u00a0original\u00a0movies I would 100% recommend watching Shuffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Truman Kewley. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film Shuffle was produced on a very low budge, but it’s low budget did not get in the way of it’s awesome story telling. \u00a0Shuffle was one of the most enjoyable films I had the\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to see at the SBIFF. \u00a0The film was shot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}