"Small Deaths" is an 11-minute live action short film from 1996, so it has its 20th anniversary this year. The writer and director is Lynne Ramsay and she won at the prestigious Cannes Film festival for her rookie work here. An impressive achievement. Actually, it is really 3 films in one, 3 very short films, as this movie tells us the story of a girl and 3 events that happened to her when she was young and how these events stayed memorable to her, probably in a negative way. The girls at different ages are of course also played by different actors, one of them being Ramsay's daughter. All in all, I would say that the filmmaker made a nice impact here and this is better than what most other filmmakers did early on, a respectable achievement for somebody in their 20s. Ramsay also proves here that she is probably at her best when she focuses on the female psyche and fittingly the protagonists are still very young here and grew older with Ramsay growing older. I recommend you to check it out.
Review of Small Deaths
