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A review roundup of (most) 2014 Oscar
live-action shorts
‘FERAL’
T
hough only three of them are actually dark, this
year’s crop of Oscar-nominated live-action shorts
(now playing at Bijou Metro feels disproportionately
heavy. There’s one bit of likable fluff (the Finnish
“Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?”) involv-
ing a flustered family in a morning rush; there’s also a bit of
humor in Mark Gill’s “The Voorman Problem,” which stars
Martin Freeman as a doctor asked to examine a prisoner who
claims he’s a god. The god, actually; Voorman (an excellent,
slippery Tom Hollander) claims to be keeping the whole
world going and offers to get rid of Belgium to prove his
claims. Sleek and deft and very, very British, “The Voorman
Problem” — which is based on an excerpt from David Mitch-
ell’s novel number9dream — is the charmer of the bunch.
Denmark’s “Helium” aims to hit a couple of different
emotional buttons, but never quite finds its mark. The story
of a janitor and the sick little boy he befriends is dotted
with surprisingly lovely effects, and its last scene offers a
nice, gentle twist, but the concept feels too familiar and too
forcefully sweet-sad.
There’s no other way to put it: “That Wasn’t Me,” by
Spanish director Esteban Crespo, is agonizing viewing,
and not just because of the atrocities Crespo so effectively
captures onscreen. The story of two Spanish aid workers of
some sort who go to an unnamed African country in an
attempt to help child soldiers, “That Wasn’t Me” leaks
good intentions but is a deeply troubling bundle of
stereotypes. If Crespo wanted to tell a story about the
horrible experiences of child soldiers, he might have done
so without weaving in a tired white-savior storyline.
The absolute standout of the live-action shorts is the
awkwardly titled “Just Before Losing Everything,”
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from French director Xavier Legrand. Taut, simple and
impossibly tense, Legrand’s film follows Miriam (Léa
Drucker) as she collects her two children and tries to work
out how to escape her abusive husband. Though the film is
just 30 minutes long, Legrand delicately lets the pieces fall
into place slowly, gradually, in what feels almost like real-
time. Miriam takes the kids to her job at a giant supermarket,
where colleagues and superiors are variously helpful,
baffled and cruel; the story of what actually happened to
her comes out in an offhand line from her son, and in the
bruises everyone sees but no one mentions. Whether it
wins the Oscar or not, “Just Before Losing Everything” is
a powerful debut for Legrand, who hopefully has features
in his future.
The quirky, slightly spooky Japanese “Possessions”
follows a handyman who has a peculiar run-in with the
cast-off items in a forest shrine. “Room on the Broom,”
based on the children’s book by Julia Donaldson, takes a
stately pace through an unabashedly endearing story dotted
with celebrity voices.
Daniel Sousa’s gorgeous, shadowy, wordless “Feral”
follows a wild boy as he’s taken from his woodland home
into a city, where clothing and cruel children are much
harder to live with than wolves and wind. “Feral” is full of
dark, stylized, fairy tale-like images.
But I keep coming back to “Mr. Hublot,” which takes
place in a gloriously detailed steampunky future, where
even flowers are made from scrap metal (and have settings
for night and day). Mr. Hublot is a strange character with
more than a touch of OCD; he spends his days straightening
his picture frames and doing something incomprehensible
with computer-like number machines. Across the street, a
little robot dog barks and shivers. When an incident
compels Mr. Hublot to force himself outside, the little dog
comes into his life — and doesn’t stay little for long. The
sweetness of the film’s story is balanced by the precisely
imagined world, which I wanted more time to explore. ■
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