- Pâté (film)
Infobox Film
name = Pâté
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director =Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
producer = Fountainhead Films
writer =Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
music = Jose Halac
cinematography = Shawn Kim
editing = Margo Hyde, Paul Vosloo
released =2002
runtime = 30 min
country =USA
language = English
budget =
website =
imdb_id = 0289755"Pâté" is a short film by writer/directorAgnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo . The film premiered at theSundance Film Festival and went on to win several prestigious awards including NYU'sWasserman Award , the Fielle d'Or at theBeverly Hills Film Festival , The Grand Jury Prize at theWorldFest Houston International Film Festival , Award for Excellence fromNew York Magazine and the Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival.Plot Summary
"Pâté" is a majestically dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Amongst the bleak landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food. Meanwhile at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother pitifully clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, indolently aided by her shiftless Maid.
Full of opulent memories and dark ghosts, their life is a sad shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival in their separate ways. When the sublimely malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, unexpectedly drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.
Cast
* Jane Culley.... The Mother
* Ty Arnold.... Otto
*Samantha Browne-Walters .... Vera
* Gary Swanson.... Mr. Griswald
* Barbara Pitcher.... The MaidExternal links
*imdb title|id=0289755|title=Pâté
* [http://www.patethefilm.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNEMqpopCp8 Trailer]
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