Outstanding.
I never expected to see a film without faults, but if those involved can translate this twelve minutes of perfection into a feature-length piece, it will be an all-time great.
A family dinner slowly (well, slowly for a short) becomes something very different. The sense of unease builds as inexorably as watching the child in Spielberg's Poltergeist (1982) looking for the clown - we know it won't end well, but there is nothing we can do.
The cast are uniformly excellent, and must have had fun making it as they fully inhabit their characters. Tonal shifts are subtle but brutal; seemingly light, right up until they strike home.
Honestly, I never expected to see a perfect film but this is the closest I have ever come. Truly harrowing.
A family dinner slowly (well, slowly for a short) becomes something very different. The sense of unease builds as inexorably as watching the child in Spielberg's Poltergeist (1982) looking for the clown - we know it won't end well, but there is nothing we can do.
The cast are uniformly excellent, and must have had fun making it as they fully inhabit their characters. Tonal shifts are subtle but brutal; seemingly light, right up until they strike home.
Honestly, I never expected to see a perfect film but this is the closest I have ever come. Truly harrowing.
- silvio-mitsubishi
- 1 feb 2024