Rattled

Silver, a colorful and creative baker wants her wedding to be like a fairy tale. Inspired by Charles Perrault story “The Donkey Skin,” she plans to hide the engagement ring in a cake and propose to her girlfriend on their anniversary night.

As she lets the cake cool down, a rat lurking in her home feasts on the dessert. When she comes back, there’s nothing left of the cake but the rat itself.

Silver hatches a plan to catch the rodent in order to get the ring back. However, she underestimates its intelligence, and her plans to catch it turn against her.

Slowly the duel between the two becomes more and more surreal and dangerous, and the rat drives Silver into complete madness.
The battle leads to bloody collateral damages, at the cost of her relationship - and her sanity.

From Fairy tale into Horror...

The movie would start from a fairytale world, with pastel and bright colors. Everything looks yummy, straight out of an Hansel and Gretel tale.

Then gradually, as Silver’s psyche falls into madness, colors are more vivid and saturated. Ambiance is getting darker as we dive into horror.

Silver is a character who’s gonna go from innocence to disillusionment, but also from pride to humility. Silver wants her life to be perfect, and her world will crumble as she’s unable to let things go, to the point where she loses all common sense. Her obsessions are taking control, and will lead her to lose the very things she cared for.

The story is a metaphor about the things we think we desperately want, without seeing the bigger picture. Obsession can come at a great cost, we think it might worth the sacrifice on, until things become irreversible. Silver is independent, successful, and talented, but she is stubborn, and most of all she is not accepting failure, to the detriment of the people around her. She canNOT lose. Her need to be in control will lead to her downfall.

The Rat in our story is the mirror of Silver’s fears. It leads her out of her comfort zone, and will constantly question her belief system, until it breaks down and allows Silver to realize what really matters... unfortunately too late.

Floriane Andersen is a French director and screenwriter, who focuses on crafting female- empowering narratives. She founded this all-female production company, Artak Pictures, who produced her latest short film “Unforgotten,” currently competing in Festivals.

Floriane studied directing at The EMCAM in France and partnered with the University of Luxembourg on the documentary “Frontières imaginaires” (Imaginary Borders) talking about language learning for young children who grow up in a multi-language and cultural environment. She’s also directed music videos for French rapper Nacio, the metal band Eradikal Insane, and Onyx And The Red Lips. In fiction, Floriane started with “The Fighter”, a short about the boxing world, and explored drama with other films like “Regrets” and “Escolta”.

She has a passion for comedy with a great sense of comedic timing with shorts like “Locked Out” or “First Time”. Floriane’s unique approach comes from her deep knowledge of film editing. She edits all her own projects but also documentaries (Frontières Imaginaires), trailers (The Key, Anorexia) music videos (Dance In The Dark), web series (TAG Pilot), short films (Big Sisters, The Hourglass). She co-wrote her first feature length script “The Stranded” with Aurélien Boulé. She is currently developing two features, a musical road-movie called “Cinematic,” and a fantasy / thriller, both with strong female-identifying main characters.