Anna Kiri (2025) Fantasia 2025

I honestly don't know if I like ANNA KIRI but I am reasonably certain that it is one of the best films from 2025.

Yes, I know that makes very little sense but at the same time the cast, the script, and the technical prowess involved in the making of the film all come together to make something special.

The plot of the film has Anna and her brother making money with a gang as low level theives. they make enough to get buy but not much more. When one of their scores ends up going banana shaped she is forced to flee.  In the process she drops her diary which is picked up by a literary person who tracks her down and offers to chage her life. The problem is the old life isn't done with her.

Flashy and deliberately told, this film is very much a calling card. The film uses all sorts of  tricks to move things along and keep us interested. Frankly it tries a little bit too hard and the film feels overly punished with a few florishes (the insertion of film clips) that make me want to hit the director. If the script and the cast weren't so god damn good I'd have written the film off.

But I can't write this film off. There is something incredibly compelling. I keep going back to the film and gushing about how it's put together, how the performances give us more than is in the script, and how the script is way more edgy and raw then the slick presentation suggests. There is an ugly edge under the gloss and the bumps lift it up.

Yea, I know that makes no sense, but the truth is director Francis Bordeleau has made something that shouldn't work but does. He's made a film that is so perfectly put together that it is te times the sum of its parts. Its the sort of film that I could show to people and say don't do that, but watch it because it's so incredible.

This film is a masterpiece- see it