dolls

Directed by Susan Luciani

Narrated by Charles Dance

Dolls has broadcast on BBC and Sky TV.

Dolls has also been officially selected to play in International film festivals in Los Angeles, Spain, San Francisco, Italy, Paris, Cyprus, Africa and Japan. It also featured as part of the Roguerunner Screenings at Cannes 2006 and at the British Society of Cinematographer’s New Filmmaker Night at Pinewood Studios.

“In Paris, in the spring of our time, a young girl was about to throw herself into the Seine…”

Inspired by a story that appeared in a 1950’s newspaper, this short film plays out a year in the life of a young girl, Mouche.

Deemed too skinny to make a living at the Moulin Rouge, Mouche is cast out and saved from suicide by a group of puppets traveling from town to town performing street puppet shows for a few paltry francs.

She joins them on their journey and together they become quite an attraction earning more money than they’ve ever made. In turn, the puppets become Mouche’s beloved family, yet behind them lurks a cruel and abusive man who’s desperately in love with her, “It would have all be so perfect if not for the puppeteer.”

Mouche must make a decision, to stay for the love of the puppets or go to escape the terrible wrath of the puppeteer.
“A man is many things Mouche, he may wish to sour to the stars yet be earthbound and overgrown..and yet all of us would rather die than go on living without you."