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ABSOLUTION

Absolution

Drama / Thriller | 24 MINS

Paul Hayes has a great job, a beautiful wife and home but the painful childhood memories he is burying are catching up with him and having traumatic effects on his otherwise perfect life and marriage. Desperate to overcome his inner turmoil and sexual inhibitions, Paul visits Joanna, a psychologist who offers an unconventional solution… suggestive therapy, through which Paul must open his troubled mind to hypnotic regression and listen to special audio tapes during sleep. But as Joanna digs deeper into the root cause of Paul’s repressed emotions she unearths a terrible secret with horrific consequences.

YEAR

2002

WRITER/DIRECTOR

Dan Bronzite

PRODUCER

Dan Bronzite

LICENSEE

ShortsTV

STARRING

Steve Spiro, Stella Duffy, Lisa Milne Henderson

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British offering ‘Absolution’ examines a husband’s sexual hang-ups which threaten his marriage but end up endangering much more than that when a psychoanalyst gets involved. The script is tense and the acting convincing in this haunting, powerful and violent play.

— Matthew Taylor (The Royal Gazette)

Dan Bronzite’s film is a gripping drama about a man living on the knife edge of schizophrenia. The plot twists in this compelling feature which has a thrilling denouement.

— Robin Holder (Bermuda Sun)

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