Framed by a prologue and epilogue, both featuring a psychiatrist's voice over, edge of fury " is a mysterious work , off the beaten track .
Richard is a lonely young man,whose background is unknown ;who is this Jenny , who warns him against his new friends? his guardian ?or only his employer in the bookstore ?Why does she urge him to leave for what must be a mental institution? The shrink one never sees hints at a financial problem.
Richard desperately tries to find himself a family; he thinks he's got the right one in the shape of a mother ,Florence,and her two daughters ,Louisa and Eleanor ;the latter has a strange relationship with Richard who seems sexually repressed in this female world .Although he needs them and throws a party for them (and treats them to the delight of French crêpes Suzette) ,his real outlet is his art:painting "his " family is a bizarre way of owning them .But there are enemies : the other men who call on the Hackett family and who might steal some of the members from him ;tragedy is around the corner.
Made on a shoestring budget, "edge of fury" looks more like an European movie than an American one.
Richard is a lonely young man,whose background is unknown ;who is this Jenny , who warns him against his new friends? his guardian ?or only his employer in the bookstore ?Why does she urge him to leave for what must be a mental institution? The shrink one never sees hints at a financial problem.
Richard desperately tries to find himself a family; he thinks he's got the right one in the shape of a mother ,Florence,and her two daughters ,Louisa and Eleanor ;the latter has a strange relationship with Richard who seems sexually repressed in this female world .Although he needs them and throws a party for them (and treats them to the delight of French crêpes Suzette) ,his real outlet is his art:painting "his " family is a bizarre way of owning them .But there are enemies : the other men who call on the Hackett family and who might steal some of the members from him ;tragedy is around the corner.
Made on a shoestring budget, "edge of fury" looks more like an European movie than an American one.