In a highly impressive and explosive feature screenwriting and directing debut, Fran Kranz has crafted Mass as a highly intense, involving, moving and thought-provoking chamber piece of a film that explores the way two different sets of parents deal with the emotional aftermath of a school shooting, years after it occurred.
This stunningly well-acted piece, an acquisition title in the Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres section, could just as easily be a play as it essentially takes place on one set and is heavily dialogue-driven, yet Kranz skillfully skirts the pitfalls of staging a conversation between four people and makes it thrillingly cinematic on its own terms.Of course, any work like this will ultimately live or die on the talents of
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