Review: Jasmin Mozaffari’s Firecrackers is an incendiary, four-star debut GlobeArts
starts off with a burst of violence, and although there’s little actual blood in the micro-budget drama, the film is fuelled by a fury and all-consuming rage that is engagingly assaultive.is not a passive work of slow-burn pondering, or whatever clichés of meek Canadian cinema have been constructed over the past few decades. It is confident, loud, urgent. It will leave you cut and bruised, and all for the better.
The film's opening ferocity arrives courtesy of Lou , a desperate young woman looking to scrape her way out of her small, unnamed Ontario town.The film’s opening ferocity arrives courtesy of Lou , a desperate young woman looking to scrape her way out of her small, unnamed Ontario town. Lou is an eager fighter but also a tender friend, just as ready to embrace partner-in-crime Chantal as she is to punch anyone who dares to look at her the wrong way.
Lou’s story is a simple one, focused only on her efforts to escape the life she’s been handed. She sort of works as a maid at a local motel. She sort of has a sexual relationship with a go-nowhere jerk. She sort of recognizes how Chantal is drifting further from her orbit. And the consistently captivating tension of it all is watching Lou struggle to internalize all of this, to plot her escape while just trying to exist, to survive, in the toxic patriarchy that’s suffocating her.
Mozaffari, who here expands her 2013 short film of the same name, wears her stylistic influences proudly.
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