Posers (film)

Posers is a 2002 Canadian drama film written and directed by Katie Tallo.[1]

This article is about the 2002 film. For disambiguation, see Poser.
Posers
Directed byKatie Tallo
Written byKatie Tallo
Produced byChantal Ling
StarringJessica Paré
Sarain Boylan
Stefanie von Pfetten
Emily Hampshire
Adam Beach
CinematographyClaudine Sauvé
Edited byKatie Tallo
Music bySerge Coté
Production
company
Twist Pictures
Distributed byHart Sharp Video
Seville Pictures
Release date
  • September 22, 2002 (2002-09-22) (Cinéfest)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Adria (Jessica Pare) is a young woman living the young urban career professional life seemingly all around innocent and radiantly angelic with a dark side, she's getting more criminally inclined with a trio of morally depraved young women who live for two things, vanity and revenge, who does a voiceover of the rules of getting their good favor and worshipping the queen bee, Love (Stefanie von Pfetten). They go to a nightclub and then follow Sadie (Danielle Kind), a young woman to the washroom and then swarmbeat her to death for cheating on Love with her boyfriend. Police Detective Sinclair (Adam Beach) investigates the four for the murder and gets nowhere cause a rule by Adria, "When something happens, blame it on a man" and begins a relationship with Adria, learning that her mother is in the hospital. Suddenly, Love has disappeared with blood smeared everywhere in her apartment which traumatises the other three. Then as the three go about their lives, their conscience gets the better of them, getting more pathologically paranoid. At a party, the girls then argue and Vonny produces a handgun, then leaves the room only to be fatally shot by police. Ruth (Emily Hampshire) is then arrested for the murder of Love and Sinclair reveals a twist ending, Adria does not have a hospital-ridden mother, who passed away long ago and Adria suffers from multiple personality disorder, meaning Adria actually murdered Love.[2]

Cast

Release

Posers premiered on September 22, 2002 at Cinéfest, followed by a home video release in early 2004.[3]

Production

Filming for Posers took place in Ottawa during November 2001, over a period of 15 days.[4] The film marked Tallo's second feature film, following the made for TV movie Juiced.[5]

Reception

DVD Talk reviewed Posers, writing that The characters and settings of Posers are good enough to stand on their own merits. Unfortunately, on top of what would have been an interesting, admittedly quieter film, Tallo has shoe-horned a murder mystery and compensated by trying to "surprise" the viewer at every turn."[6]

References
  1. "When girls' night out turns deadly". The Globe and Mail. December 17, 2001.
  2. Gerald Pratley (2003). "Posers (2002)". A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide, 1900 to the Present. Lynx Images Inc. p. 172. ISBN 9781894073219.
  3. "New Releases". South Florida Sun Sentinel (Newspapers.com). March 26, 2004.
  4. Stone, Jay (November 22, 2001). "Ottawa's own 'Girl-power thriller'". The Ottawa Citizen (Newspapers.com).
  5. Atherton, Tony (June 19, 2003). "The trials of tweendom". The Ottawa Citizen (Newspapers.com).
  6. Spuhler, Robert (April 20, 2004). "Posers (review)". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2022-10-11.


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