2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: DVD Review (2008)
Offers the viewer a great opportunity to see the range of amazing work being done in the short-film format, both animated and live action, which is so frequently and unjustly ignored.
Each of the 10 films collected here is special, but one in each category is remarkable.
First is Christian E. Christiansen's harrowing and heart-breaking live-action Denmark film, "At Night," in which three women struggle to cope with cancer and their own mortality at a cancer ward (it lost to the very good French film, “The Mozart of Pickpockets”).
Second is the Academy Award-winning standout in the animated category, "Peter and The Wolf," a fantastic entry from the United Kingdom and Poland that sometimes puts a lump in your throat before forcing it out with a laugh.
After seeing this, you’ll likely never look at cats the same way again.
Read the full, unedited review here.
Grade: A
0 comments:
Post a Comment