MQFF NOTES: Suicide Kale (2015, Dir. Carly Usdin)

As far as lo-fi indie queer film making goes, Suicide Kale is a rambling success. Carly Usdin's makeshift production is off-centre, snappy and often riotously funny.

Usdin goes for the jugular of upwardly mobile lesbian relationships as her recently-hooked-up (and delightfully niggly) protagonists Jasmine and Penn try to dissect their hosts' marriage after they find a suicide note under the couple's mattress (no guesses what the new lovers were doing in that room).

Suicide Kale is a lot of fun but it does overstay its welcome. And yes, while it is a snappy and often riotously funny lo-fi indie queer film it bears repeating that it is a lo-fi indie queer film so there's a lot of awkwardness on display, in the scripting and in the performances.

★★★

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Suicide Kale screened as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2017. 

You can check out other films from the festival here.