User reviews

The first temptation is to define it as beautiful film. Obvious, it is more - it is a film by Michael Creigh. It is, for me, one of profound useful films. Charming, spiced, touching, very Irish , a film about marriage and the love beside it and about the other as the best part from yourself. It was a pure joy see it. And remains a precious gift its discover. Because the realism in poetic forms. And, sure, for the admirable main performances.

40 years of marriage is called the Ruby anniversary.

For such herein an Irish husband buys his wife a cemetery plot near where they first met. She doesn't take this gift well and for the first 7-8 minutes of this 17 minute short they argue. In the first half of this the acting and/or dialogue (depending how you fault it) is rather poor. Then they make up and then we as viewers are 'treated' to almost 3 minutes of end credits as if this was a feature film.

Summary: 19 minute short - 8 minutes of a poor first half + 3 minutes of credits leaves about 8 minutes (for a funeral and a walk on the beach).

The accolades for this short (see poster), in short, are beyond me.

The ending would've been better without the black / white sequences IMHO. (trying not to spoil anything here, you'll figure out after watching it what I wanted to say)