A woman’s husband has been missing for almost seven years. She has constant contact with the police and have tried to find. The woman’s sister moves in. When they reach the seven-year mark, painfully the woman files the paper work to have her husband declared dead inAbsentia (without a body). Moving on with her life, and dating one of the detectives who worked on her husbands missing persons case, life begins to return to normal. Until…….the husband returns wearing the same clothes he was wearing when he went missing. Where was he? Did he leave on his own or was there something more nefarious and supernatural involved. Is the woman crazy? All of your questions can be answered in Absentia.
The story is good, decent cast and acting. Grainy and dark film, gritty, decent production. There are some creepy scenes. The part that was most interesting to me is that this film was funded, by a large part, as a Kickstarter project. If you are not familiar with Kickstarter, it is a crowd sourcing web site that allows someone to post a project and ask the private market to help fund. In this case it looks like the artist needed about $15k. The project reached its goal and then some, with the privately collected funds of $23k. I did not see the site when this was active but in some cases, as with this one, you donate a certain amount of money and get your name in the credits. At the end of Absentia, all the names of people who gave to the project are listed.
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Weird, I just reviewed this too. Aside from the ending I thought this was very good!
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That is weird. I did not see your review yet. It just became available on Netflix . I agree the ending was not the best. I did think that the kick starter funding was an interesting fact .
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