In the short film “Tallahassee,” a woman is on her way to a family birthday party, suffering from a mental torment that renders her listless and forlorn. Watch here.
“Tallahassee” makes an unconcealed nod to the loneliness and secrecy around mental illness, and the crushing solitude of lying.
To complicate matters, when Mira arrives at her mother’s house, she learns that Lara has lied to the family about where she’s been. Lara excused Mira’s absence by concocting a trip to Florida, which infuriates Mira. “What were we supposed to tell the family,” Lara says, trying to explain why she lied. “You know how they are.
One of the triumphs of “Tallahassee” is its generosity—in its depiction both of Lara’s deception and of the repercussions in the family. Mira might be angry with Lara, but she never once tries to blow her cover. “I don’t think anyone really means to lead with secrets. I think it’s more that there just isn’t a shared language around what healing means,” Alyan said, of the film’s characters. Hotait, the director, was immediately pulled in by this generosity when she first read the script.
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