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CARGO SHORTS

Today's film was an anthology of Francois Ozon's short works.

Curtain Raiser and Other Shorts (1993 through 2006)

A mixed bag of "thought pieces". Snapshots of ideas that would not make a feature length film.

A few of these are short short. Two are half hour in length.

The best of these is a piece wherein a gay man, convinced his Dad thought him ugly, isolates from the family and gets all his needs met from a lover. Both men are beautiful but the emotional drain on both by the estrangement is a problem. When the Dad is dying, he goes, reluctantly to visit him. What he finds out surprises and liberates him as well as his relationship with his partner.

Another features Louis Carrel and Mathieu Almaric in a short piece on the boundaries of a relationship. A bit boringly didactic but well acted nonetheless.

Others are amusing. One or two are not very likable.

I am glad that I saw it. File all under complete, done, I do not need or want to see them again.

A 3 out of Netflix5.

On to the rest of the features.

Labels: films