Présence féminine

A mysterious young woman arrives at a man's apartment with two suitcases. One contains a collection of hands - living hands a la 'Thing' from 'The Addams Family'. The other holds a synagogue complete with loads of little rabbis. Unfortunately for the man neither hands nor rabbis care for him very much.

This film was my introduction to foreign language films in the cinema. I couldn't have asked for anything more quirky. There isn't a lot of dialogue, its mostly visual humour (the hands knitting and doing each others nails). Its well worth a view if you can get your hands on it.

Since I saw this at an ICA short film festival in 1987 I´ve never forgotten it. One of the most delightful short films of any decade. Completely wigged out premise and delivered with slow deliberate sophistication, and, given its budget great technical panache.