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POST-PRODUCTION:
DEJA VU (HERA’S ODYSSEY) - A Dark Comedy/Road Movie.
STARRING: Kimberly Dean, Kristie Gallacher, Steve Fessler,
Martha Barnett
WRITTEN
AND DIRECTED BY Isabelle Alenus
The belief that she has a four-year-old clone is the catalyst for a young woman to completely lose her mind. Why is slowly revealed on a lonely desert highway.
When Hera comes face to face with a child she believes to be her clone, she kidnaps four-year-old Hebe and decides to drive her “home”, a journey that takes them into the middle of a desert. Hera is clearly soul-searching and hopes her life will fall back into place when she and Hebe reach their destination. On the road Hera constantly conjures up her siblings, including her dead twin, in an attempt to rationalise her behaviour. She has little time for the actual people she meets.
The mix of comedy and drama in the story parallels Hera’s lucidity slowly slipping away, until she reverts to being a teenager. The reason for the kidnapping as well as the truth behind a tragic event which triggered her decline more than a decade earlier, is revealed with an unexpected twist.
Against all odds, the anti-heroine succeeds in creating a happy ending for herself.
Or does she?
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