UNUSUAL PORTRAIT OF INTENSIVE LOVES... IN ANTIQUE TIME.
When I saw this short film for the first time, there were 2 parts that I loved, from the most incredible part and the most austere part. It is as if 2 parts were fused (or coexisted) in 1.
We have a boy fascinated by another, evidently more "mature" than him. Something not so abnormal these days for independent cinema (and Hollywood makes timid attempts to get closer) but in this short, it can be said that it does not follow any pattern.
Louis Duneton made his character unique and unrepeatable. Unfortunately, being his debut (one of the best for me, within the world of "first-time actors in those times") he fell into ostracism relatively speaking. Although he has done his things, they remain within his native France, without resonance outside of it. It's a shame because in this short we have an actor who gives a lot, a lot to achieve his character and that is to be praised.
2 parts I said before: the first is something that perhaps many filmmakers have already tackled but, here there were no excesses (although apparently there were, but experimental cinema is not for everyone, its director as a good Frenchman is clear about that) and the way he approaches this part is not as bad as some would think.
The 2nd part is an act of common sense. In capital letters. It shows how things (to a certain extent, unpredictable) reach a point of reconciliation with the 1st part. It flows like the river in an unusual way. And that is its great strength.
The title of my review is taken from the song "La Fuente" by Nino Segarra.
