Play

Synopsis: Three urns stand on the stage. From each, a head protrudes a man and two women. The film tells the story of a love triangle and the camera focuses on each character as they narrate a bitter history and their roles in it. Each head held fast in its urn is provoked into speech by an inquisitorial camera. The heads speak not just in response to the camera's focus but in an attempt to get it off themselves so that words become a defense mechanism. The musicality of Play is a measure of the camera's dehumanization of the characters in the urns.Cast: Alan Rickman, Juliet Stephenson and Kristin Scott-Thomas