Fail to Appear
Art of the Real 2018
April 26 - May 6, 2018
Bourges’s droll, touching debut, about a support caseworker in training assigned to the case of a withdrawn shoplifter, studiously renders the mechanics and kinks of the Canadian legal system and social services.
Q&A with Antoine Bourges and actress Deragh Campbell
Isolde (Deragh Campbell) is a support caseworker in training trying to get a handle on the protocols, norms, and material constraints of her new vocation. She’s assigned to the case of Eric (Nathan Roder), a withdrawn, sullen man charged with petty theft, with whom she must forge enough of a relationship that he’ll show up for his impending court date. Bourges’s Toronto-set debut precisely renders the mechanics and kinks of the Canadian legal system and social services, conferring an element of documentary reality on a droll, touching narrative, which has an elegantly unembellished style that verges on the Bressonian. New York Premiere
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