Seeing between the metaphors
Short, slightly acerbic but otherwise breezy film that's chock-full of visual metaphors.
If you wondered what Bernard Black (Dylan Moran of Black Books) would be like by 2040, this movie gives us a glimpse in Georges (Jean Sorel), but just across the Channel in Paris.
Happiness and sadness, love and loss, life and death. Soaring and falling to earth. Will the spider catch this seagull? Will the seagull, despite its stubborn nature and love of urban Paris, recognise the danger and escape?
A piece with fine economy of dialogue, the players allowed to convey motivation and feeling physically, often with just a glance. Well-judged narration aids the cause here too.
Not a bad way to spend an hour and ten minutes. During which, it will seem not much is happening. On reflection, you realise that's not the case at all.
If you wondered what Bernard Black (Dylan Moran of Black Books) would be like by 2040, this movie gives us a glimpse in Georges (Jean Sorel), but just across the Channel in Paris.
Happiness and sadness, love and loss, life and death. Soaring and falling to earth. Will the spider catch this seagull? Will the seagull, despite its stubborn nature and love of urban Paris, recognise the danger and escape?
A piece with fine economy of dialogue, the players allowed to convey motivation and feeling physically, often with just a glance. Well-judged narration aids the cause here too.
Not a bad way to spend an hour and ten minutes. During which, it will seem not much is happening. On reflection, you realise that's not the case at all.
- paul_tachian
- Dec 15, 2022