Brilliant exposition of a film extra's warped view on films and herself.

I saw this film on the end of Austin Powers' 'Spy Who Shagged Me': and thought it was going to be a hard act to follow.  But THE EXTRA proved to be a sharply honest account of a talentless film extra's hopeless attempt at acting.  Told by the Director to simply "be in a coma", the hapless character buffoons her way to a squirmish new low of acting.

I had to ask myself whether this was real or not.

It's brilliantly underplayed and oh so embarrassing!

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