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Greetings again from the darkness. It's the kind of interaction that occurs many times every day. A busy career woman crosses paths with a stranger at a London coffee shop. While she is stressed, structured and harried, he is laid back, charming, and persistent in pursuing a date with her.

Rachel Shenton stars as Jess and Chris Overton (PRIDE, 2014) is Alex. As their conversation progresses, the visuals we see are not the two sitting across the table from one another, but rather of their relationship as it unfolds over time in the future. Good times, bad times, and life events are shown. It's a very effective approach and one that keeps us focused on both what we hear them say, and what we see them do.

Ms. Shenton and Mr. Overton previously collaborated as writer and director (respectively) on the outstanding and Oscar-winning short film THE SILENT CHILD (2017). This time, they are both excellent on screen in this 10 minute gem from writer-director Tom Turner and his co-writer Samuel Berrill.

Another short film recently added to Disney Plus was "A Glimpse", a 10-minute love story that encapsulates years of a relationship into both it's first few moments and perhaps it's entirety.

Jess (Rachel Shenton) enters a busy coffee shop and asks Alex (Chris Overton) if he wouldn't mind her using his spare seat and plug socket to charge her mobile phone for a few minutes, ahead of an important call. They begin to chat and their chemistry leads to Alex asking Jess out for a drink. Mixed in with those conversations from the first moments of the relationship, we see snippets of what is (or perhaps could be) the next few years of their lives. Dating, meeting each other parents and moving in together - before Alex's apathy towards work drives them apart.

There is actual a fair bit of room for debate as to what we're seeing. You could take it as read that we are seeing exactly what will happen in their relationship, leading to the separation at the end. I think I preferred my reading, which was that what we actually seeing was Alex's expectations for how the relationship would go, knowing that their career drives might eventually being too much to overcome, but with the positive ending being that he chooses to try anyway. That sometimes, a relationship that is probably not going to work is, in and of itself, still a positive experience.

The performances are good. Real life couple, and Oscar winners themselves, Rachel Shenton and Chris Overton play the couple - though neither are the creative forces for this short. I'm not sure it's particularly revolutionary, in what it has to say but it was a bittersweet experience, nicely told.

A nice surprise sounds just fair about this little gem. A career woman. A bohem man. In a coffee shop. Their dialogue. And their future.

A relationship as a sort of plant having as seed this meeting of two strangers , not exactly flirting but proposing each to other, in indirect manner, two ways to assume the life, reflected so precise by the end of the film.

So, admirable crafted, provocative and just honest. Nothing new , in essence but the clash of dialogue in coffeee shop and the presumed future who only can be reality is just inspired, sweet and inspired at whole.

A game with the viewer . This can be the impression, imposed by the great simplicity of story.

So, Jess and Alex.