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Mémorable moi (2013)
great concept and story, great acting, what a short should be
I watched this at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. This played before one of the main features. A lot of short films feel like they need to do something flashy and cryptic. This usually means all the effort and budget goes into making something that looks like a music video with no focus on the story (quite often no discernible story). Not this short film though. It has a story which is unique but well fleshed out in the short. Also the pacing is great in that there is a beginning a middle and an end. Very few shorts I have seen bother with all 3 parts often leaving out the ending. I almost don't want to say much about the plot of this short film because I feel going in cold might be the best way to enjoy this, if you ever get a chance to watch this. It opens with a guy being caught cheating on his girlfriend. He then goes into an explanation about why he cheated on this girlfriend. And oh boy what a story it is! I feel like the story might be a satire/commentary on all the attention grabbing reality shows going on around us. It was a great short, possibly the best I have seen. Please watch this if you ever get a chance and its available with Netflix or other provider of choice.
Corvus (2012)
strong beginning , loses steam in the end.
I saw 9 shorts at the Toronto after dark film festival and this was one of them. This was very well shot. But I couldn't really make any sense of the story. It felt a little pretentious thanks to the ending. almost like it should have ended with a "Fin" instead of "The End" showing up. Maybe people with film degrees might get this film. This to me seemed like it could be re-cut to be a perfume advertisement or something with the black and white movie and 1950s clothes styling. The story is told as a first person narrative from the point of view of a detective investigating a death in the woods. It goes from there to show us the actual events leading up to the death. It was OK until the ending, the ending is where they lost me completely. I couldn't tell what it meant. Neither could any of the other people watching the movie in my group. That poor ending killed the whole short for me, which was otherwise well shot and well costumed, with decent acting. Hope to see more of his work in the future perhaps with a more approachable story.