Victor is looking for true love. But every time he finds a nice girl to go out with. He kills her. That all changes when Victor meets Yara, the girl of his dreams. In this black comedy, we follow Victor, a hopeless romantic who just can’t seem to catch a break. After all, what do you do when the girl of your dreams just won’t die?
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY EMMANUIL MORARI
SHE LIES BEAUTIFUL
A SATIRE!
From the start, there was an idea of a serial killer concept that existed from a while back. Steven, our main actor who plays Victor in the short, always had this strange look to him when wearing these particular set of glasses. I always joked that I would put him in a movie as a serial killer and he always wanted to so we looped back to this to explore.
The concept really took hold when a single line came to me in the writing process, which is the first line of the film “This was the seventh time I killed Yara Lane.” The line held so much potential in it, I could see so many things sprawling out of it and I couldn’t resist the temptation to go into a strange universe with it.
Out of that one line the rest of the short just wrote itself one afternoon after a rainy drive. A story about Victor, who kills the women he falls in love with, but what happens when one of them just won’t die? I thought there was this innate sense of comedy in that concept that just really lent itself to the genre and style that emerged.
A black comedy satire, She Lies Beautiful was created with a minimal crew and next-to-no resources. The film exits from a challenge Emmanuil and his collaborators came up with. Make the film in secret from the filmmaking community, on weekends, minimal crew, only using what they had.
The idea of the challenge was to see what could be made with nothing. So friends were used for extra, all locations came the crew's homes or place they knew. Spanning over a few months, production was captured in small chunks between work and other obligations. The result was a film that was an example and inspiration to those who want to make films.
MILWAUKEE, WI