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Good Boy (2024)
a gesture
A family. A dominater mother, with total abusive behavior for her husband and son.
A sort of complicity son- father symbolized by a gesture.
The scars on man body and the care of boy to help him. Not last, a dinner changing everything. The bitter taste and the encouraging final.
A special short film for cinematography, wise suggestion and high dose of realism. And for honest portrait of each character. The gift of it - the kick to reflection. And the precise craft of the fair gestures to a terrible situation.
A beautiful, in profound sense, short film. And courageous remind about vulnerability and gestures changing life.
The Ninth Circle (2007)
the seed
A young man , for atonement of his sin - to kill , in conflict, a girl and her mother - must plant a seed in the ninth circle of Hell.
A dark fake monk is his guide but, before ninth circle he is alone, front to satan who, for same purpose, has need of seed to. Face danger, the man has a radical solution . This option is the virtue of film, reminding in inspired manner, the Christian message , the expiating sacrifice.
A correct short film with precious final for its precise, clear message.
Admirable work, more than Gothic story expected grace premises, it uses the Church image and the lines of Dante Alighieri more than simple frame or pretext. And this is , obvious, more than a good point.
The Social Chameleon (2022)
charming
A chameleon in its home, only companions being the fire flies. One of this pets saves it from difficult situations , when the chameleon finds as model birds, frogs or compassion of turtles.
But another chameleon change its fate in beautiful manner.
Eulogy of love and the happiness as result of it , this short animation proposes the simple, honest recipe of be cool with yourself . Some irony, some nice situations, some romance. And a smart lesson about purpose of life.
The gift of change of skin colors is the heart of this charming film as fair eulogy of emotions.
In short, just see it for good state of soul, especially after tough work day.
Just Pee Here (2022)
under shower
A couple under shower. His physiologic need. Her proposition as joke becomes a bizarre solution, sexual game , testing , in some measure, the relation. The virtue of film - the use of a fantasy for a very simple + to simplistic story , in which the partners are parts of a sort of experiment.
The final, amusing define of men habit is pretty amusing and useful damping of tension. The inocence of couple represents the heart of this charming story about pleasure, biological pressure, strange solution and a proposition easy rejected by puritans but nice piece for test the relation. In short, not bad, part amusing very short film.
Senso (1954)
old fashion gifts
After more than half of century, you know the story, you know the final, each virtue to admire the performances and the historical frame and the old fashion construction of story , with some memories about Il Ghepardo by same Luchino Visconti.
Alida Vali is just superb and she has the grace to offer to her character exactly the proper nuances of a woman who, looking for manipulate an Austrian officer for save her cousin, falls in love and the military is the perfect manipulator of vulnerability of noble lady.
A film useful to see it from time to time for a special beauty, for the traits of lost worlds.
Stille landskap (2003)
the kiss
An Iranian teenager. His traditional family. His friendship with a mate . Studying together, their kiss is discovered by one of members of family. The reaction of father is more than violent and Hamid must leave the home. At school, the cruelty of classmates is precise and unpity.
So, the loneliness becomes only reality.
The result- a pure gem, precise crafted, well acted, inspired suggestions about previews facts and a wise perspective about homosexuality in teens case. The basic virtue - honest reflection of atmosphere in a profound Muslim family and the simplicity of evil as gossip.
The actor performed Hamid offers a beautiful work, the cinematography remains more than a good point.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024)
a new Dantes
The virtue of this version is to offer to Pierre Niney the privilege to perform Edmond Dantes. Because, after so many and just fine to beautiful adaptations in cinema, difficult to say more.
It is an invitation to read the novel.
It is a correct, honest adaptation. Too...adaptated for my poor taste. But, I suppose, for new generations, the film can be just useful or interesting or, why not, cool at whole. But, not being so young, I feeled something missing. Not the scenes reduced , not the strange end but the authentic emotion, so familiar to reader of book and to viewer of other versions.
But, sure, nothing wrong. A beautiful story of revenge and its mysterious rich stranger are always significant presences.
Overdue (2023)
a man. his book
Poetic. Hopefull.
A young presumed magician, refugied in his appartment, reducing his day to read a book, eating toast with beans, taking a package front his door.
Oane day, a gesture inspired by fury, determines him to leave his home. Indeed, with prudence and insecure. But the result is just great for his state of spirit. And this is the matters fact.
In final, a short film for who i am grateful to director and young Ben King. A very simple story, seductive for precise construction, for posible status of parable - the taste for self isolation is a gift of pandemic, unfortunately- and for the nice final.
Gerbil (2024)
the gift
A birthday party of a young woman. Her friend hopes to enjoy her with a special present. But the guests are preocuped, first, to find perfect paper for a too simple box with few holes, then to play a not very smart game with it.
The state of friend becomes worst , appreciating the consequences of childish game for the contained of box.
In final, for a second, all seems pretty OK. But...
Ironic perspective about young adults, the film has the virtue of correct construction of each scene. It can be a dark comedy or a simple sarcastic portrait of young people out of expected maturity. But the final, indeed, it matters more than all.
So, story of a gift ( unfortunatelly, animated one ).
Conversion of the Atheist (2024)
the precious...garlic
Two Mormon boys .
A presumed housewife.
The motif of their presence is not to convert the lady but the need of conversation with an atheist , their faiith being not so solide.
But , in fact, their visit has other purpose, darker, sustained by illusion about total vulnerable woman.
And they are wrong.
A short film working just nice in favor of personal faith ( maybe Christian one ) and inspired commercial for...garlic precious presence in house.
Fights, apparences, a religious book being only a dictionary and good make up.
Result - just lovely short film about a sort of...conversion, more inspired than many action films ( or horrors ).
So, the precious garlic as essential part of this film.
Spiral (2018)
Dmitrz and Katrina
If the Cold War becomes hot one ?
A question not so absent in last part of 80 s. This short film offers a presumed answer in nice, touching, pretty dramatic manner.
A Soviet astronaut isolated in space. A young lady, working in Australian outpost helps him , against the cynical intentions of her boss. And the steps of this event in which the mate of Katrina, like her tasty cupcakes , like the Tedybear of Dimitry are not less significant details.
The result - just a beautiful story about solidarity, blindness imposed by politic and its paranoic reactions and the devotment for good of other of a woman. In short, just charming short film.
J'aime les filles (2016)
self acceptance
Four stories of love . A presumed manifesto for tolerance. And lesbianism in water colors tones.
Inspired short animation with aspect of fable , confessions about discover of attraction and the pleasant aspects of life together , near the brutal reactions of others . Simple drawings, touching stories, delicate colors and traits of each story.
And inspired dose of realism.
The main virtue - kick to reflection about sensibility of other, near you , about feelings and steps to happiness.
The most beautiful aspect , for me, the animal heads , the drawings of horses as expressions of love being the inspired scene in this sense.
In short, useful.
Remnant (2015)
Monty
One of admirable short films. For courage to explore sensitive themes . For the inspired manner to do that. For performances and cinematography.for the touching connection mother / son, for expressions of friendship and for experiences defining the fair manner to assume the past and the new beginnings.
Homoeroticism, brutal reactions, same dream with powerful significations, reconciliation with himself. Each beautiful acted by Michael Loder. In same measure, the crumbs of fairy tale in forest, with Gothic sparkles , represents another virtue.
In short, admirable work, good support for reflection and fair reflection of cure of grief.
Freefall (2017)
profound beautiful
For so many virtues, beautiful. But especially for delicate - precise reflection of fundamental truths. A young man, affected by ALS , is helped, supportred, assisted, consolated, intense loved by his boyfriend. Before, the intention of partner to end the relation. But the motif to remain is less compassion - it can be perceived just as egocentric one . And this is the essence of many relation in which the other is , years, months, near the suffering beloved one - the past and the talks about it as compensation for bitter present, the old stories as seeds of hope.
In short, profound beautiful short film.
I Want You Back (2022)
pretty nice
Not memorable, not great but real correct crafted. And , main virtue, not exactly the expected final.
The break up of a man and a woman by their partners is the start of an alliance who must fix the two relations. Each step is acceptable but only in a case succes, fragile but succes, becomes reality.
The charm of Scott Eastwood, the lost of Charlie Day , the exploration of young adult condition and the admirable Jenny Slate are good pieces for decent rom com , proposing some romance, good irony, not best jokes of sexual references but enough for be content and to be , in some measure, seduced by story.
In short, just pretty nice.
Tattletale (2024)
a schoolteacher
A schoolteacher reading the tests of her students in classroom. The walk in room is source of not so comfortable surprises , near the disparition few dazs ago of a girl and a strange book revealing a dark secret. For save her students, she decides make a ritual. And , indeed, the things work. But the warning remains present.
A beautiful short film first for inspired atmosphere and acting.
Second -for details , for the blood stains and the sign of demon to the sacrifice of young lady and the word from test who creates her suspicions. Not last, the dead rabitt and the cloud of flies.
Not so original but correct at whole.
Cineastes (2014)
references
I suppose , the chain of references , heart of this short film, represents its basic good point.
A man, passioned bz films, has a kind of obsession about a woman , cinephil herself , to. So, he follows her, has occasion to speak to her - not with brilliant result, returns to home and his relation with his ex wife remains formal .
Easy to see it as expression of middle age crisis portrait or need to give sense to empty, boring life. Beautiful cinematography, inspired white - blake for image and reasonable performances.
Some bitter poetry of image and the fair return to the man looking for sense of his life.
In short, beautiful.
Blue (2024)
confined
Pandemic period is reminded bz this short film about a lonely guy confined in his home in winter. The source of food is a caretaker ladz . Their dialogue is reduced and the try of man to animate it works bad.
The madness , for this very long period of isolatation , is his answer. Drawings with dark characters , talk with himself, the lost f measure of time, wish about end of each day .
And the final radical gesture offering something who can be called freedom.
Familiar references, fair craft scene by scene and the final far to be surprising. Some Horla by Guy de Maupassant touch and the ambiguous final . And, sure, the coldness, almost physical.
Room Taken (2023)
lovely
A young homeless looking for a place to live . A venerable blind lady. His help for her and the opportunity to stay, discreet, in her apartment, like a sort of shadow.
But the senses of woman are far to be weak, his movements and forms of help for her not ignored a phone calling not easy to ignore. In all, a gift, her thought being about the late husband return in delicate manner.
In short, just a lovely short film, seductive for grace, tender crafted story , for acting, for nice final, for the feeling she knows but, for different causes, prefers to ignore his presence.
Beautiful in profound waz, a film about special form of connection.
3 Minutes (2016)
a visit
It reminds me the Soviet films of 80 s. For dialogue, story, acting, final. Or about second episode of Dekalog , by. Krzysztof Kieslowski.
A woman entries in apartment of a young man. The motif - a pregnancy test. After test, their dialogue revealing tension, doubts, fear.
And, more important, the delicat truth , making sense about the visit of lady and her bad emotional state.
A film about family and future, beautiful defining context and consequences and the decisions of the two.
A film about what real matters in two perspectives. And, sure, about trahison.
All more than admirable , from acting, dialogue, sides of tension and room.
The Farm (2024)
Leon
A young man is reocuped by the fate of his friend , missing , like other persons. His page on social media site offers a clue. Not enough but good start point about a cult and about a record.
The dreams are other way to discover and understanfd the dark truth about buddy fate.
Well crafted, scene by scene, inspired cinematography, The Farm represents more than a good horror or suspense film.
It is a honest eulogy of friendship, seductive for the steps of way to truth, reflected states of man decidet to find Leon, his friend and being witness of a form of sacrifice, well suggested, in powerful manner . In short, admirable .
Lift Off (2021)
refuge
A boy dreaming to be astronaut. The brutal reaction of father , the sustain of mother . After years , the game remains the same, only the toys being adaptated. Like the reactions.
The consequence seems exagerated . But the story is, obvious, true , especially if you do not ignore the cases, not rare, of Peter Pan syndrome. Nice atmosphere, fair acting, inspired evoke of childhood in sweet light mother- son relation , dialogue, secrets and a cold end with poetic virtues.
The refuge in imaginary world entire life , not being, exactly, madness expression.
So, I admitt, it is a film who I real love.
House Rules (2023)
Cass. her mother.and their dates
A dark comedy defined by the wisdom to be more than nice. The good point is the manner to cover serious thing from overprotective mother to cultural difference and pressure of rules inoculated by education.
A young girl and her too curious, cool and protective mother , The date of the last is occasion of meet of her daughter with her crush. Polite -her, pretty childish - him. And the prepaires for sex.
But nothing is so simple and the simple rule of house - shoes off and the delicate tries of girl to solve the problem is seed for tragic accident.
The return of mother and her partner date solves, in part, terrible situation. And what seems a presumed change of mother reflects the come back of mother status.
So, good care about Himalayan salt lamps sounds a pretty useful message in final. And, sure, like in entire East, shoes off when you entry in house.
One Small Step (2017)
three children
Dasani has 9 years old age and she must be the tutor of her younger siblings, to assume the tasks of school, to accept the fail of her alimentary card and, when her mother, preocuped by political - social activity goes to a reunion, to solve the ordinary problems in her too long absence.
A bitter - precise crafted story , this is the main virtue of this short film.
Second- the real beautiful performances.
Not last - the final, obscure, painful, suggesting radical- dark solution for problem of children.
A film about kids, victims of limited interests, out of form of selfishness, of parent. Many suggestions about fate of father and the problems of mother, security agent. And fair portraits of children in a not comfortable situation.
Arlo and the Sea (2023)
a poem
A poem about loneliness, first important love, the effects of break up and the hope.
A film about relation with sea and about way to be comfortable with you . And the period of pure happiness.
Well acted, nice story, inspired images. Not the most wise end - pretty fake - but , grace to the coment and the surrealistic air , acceptable with some indulgence.
In short, I like it , first for the remind of old fairy tales , second for beautiful cinematography . One of films reminding crumbs from near reality , the traits of young people today and for the relation with sea of a man for who loneliness discovers the happiness for lost it . The last scenes and temption to believe the presumed fatal choice.