Thursday, June 25th 2009
New Simon Baker Film Thrills Audience
Soref's "Not Forgotten" Takes Taboo Subject Matter to the Masses
Los Angeles, CA - "The title's already taken, but you could have almost called this film 'Secrets & Lies,'" said The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt to director Dror Soref as he moderated their post-screening discussion on "Not Forgotten" at the Writers Guild last night. "This seems to be a very intriguing theme in the film."
"The reason this was attractive to me was the lies," responded Soref. "Unless you face them, you're going to continue down a dwindling spiral. You start down a particular road and, unless you clean yourself up, you wind up at the bottom."
During the screening, the socking subject matter of the film was often met with loud gasps and chilling periods of silence. Afterwards, Soref and producer Donald Zuckerman recounted stories of shooting the cult-centric thriller in New Mexico.
The audience's questions to the director were not the perfunctory "How long did you shoot for?" one might expect; rather, they were well articulated, cerebral notions pertaining to the film's many ingenious plot maneuvers.
The industry-esque audience also queried Soref on the film's stylistic qualities. "There was a very guerilla-looking, handheld, shaky shooting style," said one audience member. "Was that done on purpose?"
"Yes, it was," explained Soref, proudly. "The DP and I put together a thick document on a shooting plan. The guerilla look was very intentional - shooting people from the back, etc. All of that was planned to a T."
"Not Forgotten" opened in Los Angeles on Friday, May 15, 2009.
