We'll Find Something

Difficult to rate. This is quite something: compressing a true story into a short movie. When most shorts are made like a music video or soda ad, this is a story. On the other hand, Pixar does that, so it's not such a great feat. To complicate things more I don't care much about the couple, so probably when compacting the story the writer left out some relevant pieces too.

This reminds me a lot of some of the early episodes of High Maintenance (now, sadly, it seems, no longer available anywhere), which I mean very much as a compliment. It's a realistic, funny, fairly open-ended slice of life.

Mostly, people do too much with shorts, not too little. They try to wow you with big concepts or special effects, and it's not impressive, it's boring and needy.

All this one is is an irritable, basically dysfunctional couple wandering around trying and failing to find a place to eat - partly hampered by their paleo-seeming no-carb diet - but it's completely engaging. It's also beautifully and economically executed, from writing to shooting to performances.