BROKEN BIRD

By Joanna MITCHELL

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Black comedy - Completed 2024

She likes dead people and poetry

    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Black comedy, Horror
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Joanna MITCHELL
    • Synopsis
    • This rich, disturbing tale steps into the life and mind of Sybil Carmichael. Sybil is quiet, creative soul. Her hobbies are taxidermy and poetry. She works in a funeral parlor with the deceased. She likes dead people. They understand her.

      At just ten years old, she experienced a massive trauma in a tragic accident which took away the family she adored. Now, an aching loneliness prevails in a void which she seeks to fill. She has her hobbies, which is nice... But poetry and a vivid imagination only provide a temporary escape from the harsh realities of a lonely life. Reality and reason are slipping away from Sybil and her ‘dark desires’ become more and more insatiable. Her fascination with the dead takes a dark and strange twist. And in a horrific climax of gothic proportions, she finds her own kind of happiness and contentment with the people she keeps as company - the dead people.

      Sybil is masterfully portrayed by Rebecca Calder (Kandahar/Memory) in a riveting nuanced performance in which she captures all of Sybil’s quirky, unsettling behavior. She is supported by the wonderful James Fleet (Four Weddings & a Funeral), Sacharissa Claxton (Avenue 5) and Jay Taylor (Misfits).