Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft, "Late Bloomer" is a compelling and humorous journey through a young boy's first sexual education class.
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Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft, "Late Bloomer" is a compelling and humorous journey through a young boy's first sexual education class.
I saw the short film at the CineVegas Int'l Film Festival in June 2004. I found it to be a unique, well-done and darkly hilarious work. The visuals were impressive, the camera work was skillful, and even the peculiar narration lent a lively and bizarre touch. Each scene appeared well thought out, well choreographed, and well captured. I thought that the classroom scenes depicting fevered pubescent incantations and ritualistic performances were quite funny and lent a comical perspective on our shared, probably painful, memories of the middle school sexual education curriculum. Director Craig Macneill has a nice creative vision, a well-crafted sense of humor, and an off-beat perspective, and demonstrates it all here.
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I saw the short film at the CineVegas Int'l Film Festival in June 2004. I found it to be a unique, well-done and darkly hilarious work. The visuals were impressive, the camera work was skillful, and even the peculiar narration lent a lively and bizarre touch. Each scene appeared well thought out, well choreographed, and well captured. I thought that the classroom scenes depicting fevered pubescent incantations and ritualistic performances were quite funny and lent a comical perspective on our shared, probably painful, memories of the middle school sexual education curriculum. Director Craig Macneill has a nice creative vision, a well-crafted sense of humor, and an off-beat perspective, and demonstrates it all here.