The 50's

Cory Ewing's short film and view of the 1950's is an artful and curious one. It tells the story of a young man (Alex Rollins) who secretly has a crush on a young man (Andrew Neighbors) he sees on the beach. He's a lustful object of desire of the other man who finds ways to ignore his girlfriend (Mikaella Abitbol).

A morailty tale about the period of gays in the closet and self repression that finds its ways of being slighly in the open filmed with a great sense of quality in a stylistic black-and-white fashion. I loved the acting, specially from the young guys, tell a lot without saying one word. It's amazingly beautiful. I'd like to see this as a feature of film, with a more layered storyline. It remind me of "Far From Heaven" but the style and the settings here went beyond the Dennis Quaid paralel storyline. There was chemistry and excitment here. 9/10.

A splendid short film about attraction, desire, secret crush and rules of 50 s.

Virtues - the inspired simplicity of story, the acting - Alex Rollins proposes a lovely performance as married young man atracted by the stranger next beach towel, the mannerism about 1950 decade and the great sketch of fantasies.

It is a film without dialogue and white-black, both, obvious virtues in this case.

The precise crafted ladder of suggestions, correct each by other, the ball moment - absolutely inspired, the Coke scene are the good moments of a story who can be discovered as eulogy and faithfull portrait of a time and to represion of gay impulses.

In short, a gem.