Broken

I had the opportunity to see 'Broken' at its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. It was, by far, my favorite short at the festival. Elle Travis tells a frightening and moving story in this beautifully acted and shot film. Don't miss it

I thought Broken was brilliant. It was an in your face short. It did not feel like a short. The story was great. The film looked good, and I thought the directing was right on.

I look foward to seeing more of this director's work. The actors were great especially, the ambulance driver, Zapata???. Good work.

This film is powerful, intense, well directed and well acted. The director is able to generate compassion and concern for the characters in a short amount of time. It gets right to the point and drives it home. I believe it's a testament to how desensitized we can become under the right (or wrong) circumstances. What I still can't believe is that this is a true story! Again, a powerful film and one I definitely recommend.

I enjoyed watching Broken and come up short with the proper words to describe this rather genre defying endeavor. Firstly, the direction showed a very understated yet mature handling style that tells a story though chooses not to put its feet down on what we as the audience should ascertain from it. The film does not pander, as many other short films do, to the audience through shock or mock. Broken is a multifaceted and layered story that raises questions it does not seek to directly respond. We are left with a story about a man who was redempted from a "broken" experience, or was he? A seemingly harmless frolick south of the border turned into a life changing -- and shattering -- experience. All the principals players in that experience, the girlfriend, the jail guard, the sympathetic paramedic, were impacted by the "broken' experience in life altering ways, yet departed from the story as mysteriously as they entered it. In the closing scene, as the surfer heads off to another wave seemingly salvaged from this experience, what really happened to him, and all of them? That is one of the mysteries of this film, and indeed, of life itself. Was Broken the beginning, the end or a process? In that way, are we all broken?

The acting was great! The Directing was spot on and kept my interest the whole way through. I was DRAWN into the story! I was scared, feeling as though I, myself, was in a Mexican prison. The story was NOT predictable! The cinematography was excellent, clean and moody. My suggestion: see this film!