Pâté (film)

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Pâté
Directed by	Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Produced by	Fountainhead Films
Written by	Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Music by	Jose Halac
Cinematography	Shawn Kim
Editing by	Margo Hyde, Paul Vosloo
Release date(s)	2002
Running time	30 min
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Pâté is a short film by writer/director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win several prestigious awards including NYU's Wasserman Award, the Fielle d'Or at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, The Grand Jury Prize at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, Award for Excellence from New York Magazine and the Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival.

[edit] Plot Summary

Pâté is a majestically dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Amongst the bleak landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food. Meanwhile at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother pitifully clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, indolently aided by her shiftless Maid.

Full of opulent memories and dark ghosts, their life is a sad shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival in their separate ways. When the sublimely malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, unexpectedly drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.