Agreeing with 'boblipton' (the one who wrote the only other review here), this short film didn't need to be a cartoon in the sense that it could have been easily made with real actors, etc.. But, you would need the right actors to get the same sympathetic characters across, and that may have been quite a task (not impossible with the right connections or budget, but still). This animated version hits the spot, even if it looks mostly like it's something for children. It isn't, though, the theme of leaving home, which is something they don't have to be bothered with until later, right?
Having said that, 'Uit huis' ('Out of the house', loosely translated) offers various funny, Kafka- and Escher-like situations, some of them rather repetitive, about a father who wants to get his son to leave home, but his mother would like to 'keep' him (which'll make you think about his parents' relationship). This notion becomes darkly obvious when the mother dies after the umpteenth failed effort of the man/boy leaving and then returning, 'somehow'. It's a bit mysterious, it's a bit awkward, it's a bit funny, but overall sympathetic and there's plenty to chew on afterward.
I don't think it's brilliant, but just 3*? C'mon! A good 7 out of 10 from yours truly.
Having said that, 'Uit huis' ('Out of the house', loosely translated) offers various funny, Kafka- and Escher-like situations, some of them rather repetitive, about a father who wants to get his son to leave home, but his mother would like to 'keep' him (which'll make you think about his parents' relationship). This notion becomes darkly obvious when the mother dies after the umpteenth failed effort of the man/boy leaving and then returning, 'somehow'. It's a bit mysterious, it's a bit awkward, it's a bit funny, but overall sympathetic and there's plenty to chew on afterward.
I don't think it's brilliant, but just 3*? C'mon! A good 7 out of 10 from yours truly.
