Bocchini’s short is seductive exercise in misdirection, and the director isn’t afraid to embrace his stylistic side as his protagonist’s inner turmoil is vividly portrayed in her descending surroundings.
Ride With The Guilt takes the trope of the bunny-boiler and casts it into a vitally ambiguous light. Bocchini refuses to answer our questions as to who has wronged whom here, but instead transports the horror femme and her Shakespearean thirst for revenge into the contemporary framework of mental illness, identity and motherhood with unambiguously triumphant results.”
