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Directed by
Christopher Smith



Writing credits
Christopher Smith (written by)

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Liam Hemsworth ... Victor

Melissa George ... Jess
Michael Dorman ... Greg
Rachael Carpani ... Sally
Emma Lung ... Heather
Henry Nixon ... Downey
Joshua McIvor ... Tommy

Produced by
Julie Baines .... producer
Chris Brown .... producer
Jason Newmark .... producer
Steve Norris .... executive producer
Jason Rosamond .... executive producer
Jonathan Taylor .... associate producer

Original Music by
Christian Henson

Cinematography by
Robert Humphreys

Film Editing by
Stuart Gazzard

Casting by
Nikki Barrett
Kelly Wagner

Production Design by
Melinda Doring

Set Decoration by
Glen W. Johnson

Makeup Department
Tracy Reeby .... makeup artist
Shane Thomas .... hair designer
Shane Thomas .... makeup designer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bish Bishop .... second second assistant director
Jamie Crooks .... first assistant director
Ian 'Thistle' Thorburn .... second second unit director: storm sequence

Art Department
Bob Booker .... set dresser
Mark Brims .... property master
Graeme Callander .... storyboard artist
George Kabot .... graphic designer (2009)
Tricia McInally .... art department coordinator
Emma Rudkin .... set dresser

Sound Department
Nick Baldock .... adr editor
Peter Baldock .... sound designer
Peter Baldock .... supervising sound editor
Wade Barnett .... adr recordist
Gareth Bull .... sound re-recording mixer
Ben Carr .... adr recordist
Jennie Evans .... foley editor
Michael Feinberg .... dialogue editor
Adele Fletcher .... additional foley editor
Eddy Joseph .... sound consultant
Travis MacKay .... adr mixer
Adam Mendez .... additional foley editor
Adam Mendez .... foley recordist
Jack Stew .... foley artist
Richard Straker .... sound re-recording mixer
Craig Walmsley .... sound recordist

Special Effects by
Shane Bailey .... special effects technician
Daniel Houweling .... special effects coordinator
Ben Ingram .... special effects assistant
Clint Ingram .... special effects supervisor
Murray Philip .... special effects technician
Jeremy Piggott .... special effects technician
Steve Rungwerth .... special effects technician
Greg Tuckwell .... special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Abubakar Abrar .... roto artist
Jan Adamczyk .... digital compositor
Ben Aickin .... digital compositor
Louie Alexander .... digital compositor: Framestore
Antony Allen .... paint & roto artist
Atanas Atanasov .... modeller: Framestore
Matthew Baker .... digital clean-up: Framestore
Dave Bannister .... digital compositor: Framestore
Rodrigo Bernardo .... digital lab engineer
Zachary Bloom .... scanning and recording: Framestore
Ilona Blyth .... visual effects editor: Framestore
Matt Boyer .... matchmove artist
Clare Brody .... data operator - framestore
Robin T. Brown .... digital paint & roto artist
Giles Burgess .... vfx editor
Mathieu Burri .... digital artist
Luke Butler .... digital compositor: Framestore
Daniela Campos Little .... matchmove artist
Ronan Carr .... roto and paint artist
Zoe Cousins .... scan/record operator: Framestore
Graham Day .... digital compositor: Framestore
Richard Edwards .... digital intermediate data operator
Richard Frazer .... rotoscope artist
Anthony Gibbs .... title designer
Kyle Goodsell .... compositor: Framestore
Brian Goodwin .... visual effects artist
Mai Gray .... digital paint and roto artist: Framestore
Alistair Hamer .... film mastering engineer
Luke Harris .... pipeline technical director
Adam Hawkes .... digital compositor
Karsten Hecker .... film mastering engineer
Jan Hogevold .... executive producer: framestore di
Nathan Hughes .... digital matte painter
Oliver Johnstone .... paint & roto artist
Aaron Lear .... lead paint & roto artist
John Peter Li .... lead technical director
James Long .... digital intermediate data operator
Patrick Lowry .... technical director: Framestore
Veronica Marcano .... scanning & recording operator: Framestore
Luke Massingberd .... paint & roto artist
László Molnár .... texture artist: Framestore
Ivan Moran .... visual effects supervisor
Bruce Nelson .... digital compositor: Framestore
Adam Parker .... retouch and restoration: Framestore
Steve Parsons .... digital compositor
Talli Peled .... digital effects artist
Andy Pinson .... digital paint & roto artist: Framestore
Lee Rankin .... scanning and recording: Framestore
James Reed .... scanning and recording
Marc Rice .... paint & roto artist
Scott Robertson .... junior rotoscope artist
Gavin Round .... DI producer: Framestore
Jimmy Saul .... scanning and recording manager
Aatesh Shah .... systems engineer: Framestore
Asa Shoul .... digital colourist
David Simpson .... digital compositor: Framestore
Anthony Smith .... digital compositor
Laurence Smith .... texture artist: Framestore
Mark Taylor .... texture artist: Framestore
Michael Adam Thompson .... matchmover: Framestore
Oscar Tornincasa .... digital compositor
Chris Ventress .... paint & roto artist
Dan Victoire .... conform editor
Simon Whalley .... producer: title sequence
Andrew Wheater .... texture painter: Framestore
Blake Winder .... digital compositor: Framestore

Stunts
Angela Moore .... stunt double
Craig Morgan .... utility stunts
Sheree Swords .... stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Sean Aston .... key grip
Jason Binnie .... first assistant camera: "a" camera
Daniel Clark .... first assistant camera: second unit
Tristan Davies .... second assistant camera: second unit
Simon Harding .... Steadicam operator
Simon Harding .... camera operator
Jay A. Lind .... grip
Steven Magrath .... additional second assistant camera: second unit
Ricky Schamburg .... first assistant camera: second unit
Paul Seipel .... second assistant camera: "a" camera
Josh Tanner .... data wrangler
Mark Wareham .... second unit director of photography
Daniel Whelan .... video assistant

Casting Department
Vanessa Baker .... adr voice casting
Bud Hopes .... extras casting
Danny Long .... casting assistant
Ben Parkinson .... extras casting
Dominika Posserén .... casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Chantelle Dixon .... costume stand-by: second unit
Stephanie Schubert .... assistant costume stand-by

Editorial Department
Giles Burgess .... first assistant editor
Peter Crombie .... assistant editor
Andrew MacRitchie .... additional editor

Music Department
Matt Biffa .... music clearance
Samuel K Bohn .... additional music arranger
Samuel K Bohn .... assistant to composer
Ben Foskett .... orchestrator
Nick Taylor .... score recording engineer & mixer
Richard Todman .... music editor
Alison Wright .... music supervisor

Other crew
Aaron Anderson .... creative coordinator: uk film council
Angelique Badenoch .... second unit coordinator
Kira Bohn .... script supervisor
Cindy Gollagher .... production coordinator
Danielle Lomas .... assistant: director
Tony MacDonald .... runner
Bruce Shapiro .... dialogue coach
Rita Siomos .... first assistant accountant
Sophie Siomos .... production accountant
Maxine Stanley .... post-production accountant

Thanks
Craig Fackrell .... special thanks

REVIEW

On-stage with writer-director Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance) at the Film4 FrightFest 2009 to introduce the world premiere of Triangle, lead actress Melissa George seemed to commit the near-criminal faux pas of revealing a major spoiler. In fact this apparent clanger, while certainly not a red herring, did not and could not undermine in any serious way the experience of viewing Triangle - for when a film is as dizzyingly complex, as impenetrably labyrinthine and as diabolically ambiguous as this, spoilers just do not apply (although they will still be avoided in this review).

Seeing Triangle once, or indeed several times, will not provide some magical solution to the unfolding mystery - but it will suggest a number of possible routes through its misty narrative, all of which you may well be traveling for days afterwards. Yes, this is a film that haunts the mind, and no single word or phrase can give the whole game away.

SPOILERS

When Jess (George) is invited to join Greg (Michael Dorman) and some friends for a day trip on a yacht (called the Triangle), it seems a welcome opportunity to escape, however briefly, the constant stresses of being single mother to a young autistic boy (Joshua McIvor). The boat, however, is overturned in a flash storm and the pleasure-seekers find themselves scrambling aboard a giant ocean vessel (the Aeolus) that has emerged out of the fog. Although one of the party does catch a glimpse of a person on the upper decks, the vast, luxuriously appointed ship appears to be otherwise deserted. Then a masked figure starts taking out the lost travelers one by one, as a distraught, desperate Jess begins (or at least continues) to chase her own tail, in flight from, and pursuit of, a fate that seemingly cannot be eluded.

The key effect of Triangle is disorientation, as we are made to feel as lost, confused and hopeless as Jess herself in her vain struggle against the darker aspects of her own nature. In keeping with the film's shape-based title, Smith achieves this disorientation through the twisted geometry of a narrative which, though certainly looping back on itself, is less a circle than a mobius strip, full of puzzle and paradox. And - again in keeping with the title - the film presents viewers with three aspects, one psychological, one supernatural, one mythical, and leaves it entirely uncertain from which side the story is best viewed.


"I feel like I know this place, I recognise these corridors," comments Jess as she wanders the empty halls of the Aeolus (named after the legendary god of winds whose son, Sisyphus, was famously condemned to an infernal punishment of eternally repeating effort), "I'm having a déjà vu every time I turn a corner."

If Jess is describing a well-known uncanny trick of the mind, we feel it too, confronted not only with scenes playing themselves out time and time again from (impossibly) different perspectives, but also with recognisable references to countless other films. For Smith sprinkles his narrative with intertextual breadcrumbs that overtly evoke Dead Calm, Adrift , Ghost Ship, The Shining, Carnival Of Souls, even Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (with its inverted boats, purgatorial crabs and multiple Sparrows).

In such an allusive terrain, viewers may well feel that they too 'know this place', but as things shift from tempestuous travelogue to maritime slasher to claustrophobic psychodrama, the film limns a brain-bending enigma, trapping us all at once in an unraveling mind, in a never-ending twilight zone - and in the prison house of cinema itself. The circle of this infuriatingly nightmarish narrative seems impossible to square, making it like Alain Resnais' masterpiece Last Year In Marienbad (1961), only set (mostly) on a boat, in colour, and with a lot of blood.

The other characters are all reasonably disposable but as Jess, Melissa George gives the performance of her life, anchoring everything to her increasingly horrified journey into self-knowledge. It is without question Smith's most mature film to date, and one of the best (and most bewildering) genre films of 2009.