Diagnosis

Beautiful architecture of story. Splendid performances. Great manner to build the state of viewer. And, after its end, the image of peacock as a sort of seal. A special short film about deep loneliness and about the reality defining all behind appearences.

Diagnosis is a story of a woman who acts out the roles of different patients in order to help with the training of doctors. However, the woman has her own troubles. The viewer, like a doctor, is challenged to work out what is wrong. I found this to be difficult and personally needed more clues in the plot. However, this film has an intriguing premise and the acting is good.

From the brilliantly talented writer-director Eva Riley, another intimate and vividly sketched portrait of a woman in crisis, with a knockout performance by Charlotte Spencer (who looked familiar from Sanditon - this is a seriously gifted actor).

19 minutes of focused brilliance.

Eva made this before her feature debut 'Perfect 10', which is of course definitely worth checking out.

I think Eva's in the Andrea Arnold school, and I hope she takes that as a massive compliment.