{"id":1659,"date":"2014-06-03T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2014-10-12T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:08:36","slug":"malory-nicole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/malory-nicole\/","title":{"rendered":"MALORY & NICOLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emotionally gritty and tinged with the beauty of a drug infused dreamscape, MALORY & NICOLE is a momentary yet intimate look at the hope that comes with the dawn of a new day and the descent into darkness that comes with the night, speaking loudly through imagery of how quickly life turns on a dime and the truth that is masked by both.<\/p>\n

\"malory<\/p>\n

Bill Malory has just been released from prison after serving 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0 With a token release check in his pocket, a trash bag as a suitcase carrying a change of socks and underwear and a few personal items, Malory is alone.\u00a0 There was no one to meet him at the prison gate.\u00a0 No one to give him a ride or a hug or a handshake.\u00a0 And so he walks.\u00a0 To where, even he doesn\u2019t know.\u00a0 After 30 years does he even have a home?<\/p>\n

Hitchhiking on a stretch of empty highway, Malory sits to rest, seemingly taken with the rote mechanized spin of the vanes on a wind farm; undoubtedly analogous to his prison routine.\u00a0 You can almost hear him sighing, wondering in his mind\u2019s eye, \u201cIs this all my life will ever be?\u201d.\u00a0 But, then his luck changes.\u00a0 A young woman stops to give him a ride.\u00a0 Heavily tattooed, flowing curly red hair, Nicole appears to be under the influence of something, and it\u2019s not the Bill Withers \u201cLovely Day\u201d song playing on the radio.<\/p>\n

As MALORY & NICOLE appear to hit it off, and since Malory has nowhere to go, they drive to one of the no-tell motels along the highway.\u00a0 Although things start to heat up between the two and a beautiful night turns into another sunlit dawn with Malory feeling on top of the world,\u00a0 Nicole\u2019s infusion of drugs into the mix seems to be taking the two down a dark twisted path, especially when tenderness turns anything but.<\/p>\n

Lynn Sher embodies the essence of Nicole, easily slipping into the cliched hooker perception complete with tattoos, fishnet thigh highs, uneducated elocution and grammar and, of course, a never ending supply of cocaine and other drugs.\u00a0\u00a0 But where Sher breaks the mold is by blending the trope with a kindness of heart and then jolting the senses with a shifting betrayal.\u00a0 Quite interesting to watch her execute this arc.<\/p>\n

As Malory, Ronald Quigley is beyond likeable with more than a bit of unspoken self-loathing ass-kicking for being a screw-up in his youth.\u00a0 He makes you feel for Malory with both empathy and sympathy; his taciturn nature makes you want to know more, to understand.\u00a0 Quigley makes us want to see Malory start anew.\u00a0 Navigating the emotional waters, Quigley delivers a Malory that resonates with authenticity and humanity.<\/p>\n

Written by Ronald Quigley and co-directed by Quigley and Adam Ward, the technical standout of MALORY & NICOLE comes from cinematographer Dwight Lay.\u00a0 Clearly having learned his craft well with decades of work as a gaffer, Lay uses light and shadow and color to paint some beauteous moments while maintaining story focus and emotional bandwidth.\u00a0 From the opening brightly lit wide lensed open highway and empty sky laced with a cinematic grit that mirrors the story and characters to bodies bathed in a rich neon blue reflection that only heightens the sensuality of the moment and the tenderness between the two principals, bookends Malory\u2019s perfect first day.\u00a0 Stunning is montage of layered imagery of drugs, Jack Daniels bottles, cigarette-butt laden ashtray set against a richly colored sunset superimposed upon the ever spinning vanes on the wind farm.\u00a0 A metaphoric standout.\u00a0\u00a0 Camera for the most part stays tight on the two principals, allowing facial expressiveness to command.\u00a0\u00a0 Kudos also to Kevin O\u2019Farrell\u2019s work with the sound as little touches like hearing the gravel beneath Malory\u2019s sad heavy walk only adds to the emotional palette.<\/p>\n

MALORY & NICOLE may be a short film, but it\u2019s definitely not short on story and emotion.<\/p>\n

Directed by Ronald Quigley and Adam Ward<\/p>\n

Written by Ronald Quigley<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ronald Quigley and Lynn Sher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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