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The Hamlet of Suitcases

A washed-up travel writer returns to the remote and overgrown hamlet where his career both started and ended. As the isolated and deserted location begins to affect his mind, he is forced to confront his past and evaluate his life.

  • Max Albrecht
    Director
  • Max Albrecht
    Writer
  • Toby Albrecht
    Writer
  • Alexandre Textoris
    Writer
  • Max Albrecht
    Producer
  • Max Albrecht
    Key Cast
    "The Writer"
  • Toby Albrecht
    Key Cast
    "The Uncle"
  • Alexandre Textoris
    Key Cast
    "Narrator/The Hunter"
  • Lucille Lambert
    Key Cast
    "Tara"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Le Hameau des Valises
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Comedy
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 14, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    300 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Max Albrecht

Born in the south of England and raised in the north, while studying a physics degree at university Max identified film-making as a way to combine his various creative interests, including writing, visual composition, acting, and composing songs and soundtracks. Max is a lifelong fan of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and surreal films, and draws upon his own scientific knowledge and medical experience of surviving cancer at an early age to colour the philosophies behind the characters and worlds in his films.

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Director Statement

This film started life as a photography project; I had just purchased the first DSLR of my own, with a 50-mm lens. I was on holiday staying with friends who owned a caravan site, now shut down. The spectacular lighting and evocative environment was too good an opportunity to pass up, and so I wrote the story around the location and its bizarre real name; "Le Hameau des Valises". As I did not have cast or crew on-hand, the film was made entirely independently, with the help of my father and our friends there. I have tried to express many things in this film, having written and shot it at a transitional time in my own life, but more than anything I wanted to evoke the feeling of the place; this still and quiet, natural and yet oddly desolate location in southern France.