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Form: Less is More
<---The VarmintsThe Charles is playing all of the Oscar Nominated Shorts from this year. Given the Oscar's history of tear-jerker, feel-gooder nominees, I was skeptical of what I was going to see, but I shouldn't have been.
Whoever set the standard for a movie length at 90 minutes may have made a mistake. These compressed stories were haunting, hysterical, beautiful, depressing... whirlwinds of excellence. I left the theatre feeling a bit like I had been emotionally traumatized, but in a really good way. They weren't all great, some were just ok, but they were short so it didn't matter. I wasn't resentful of the lost time. Easy to move on. No hard feelings.
The show times are here...Whoever set the standard for a movie length at 90 minutes may have made a mistake. These compressed stories were haunting, hysterical, beautiful, depressing... whirlwinds of excellence. I left the theatre feeling a bit like I had been emotionally traumatized, but in a really good way. They weren't all great, some were just ok, but they were short so it didn't matter. I wasn't resentful of the lost time. Easy to move on. No hard feelings.
If you can't make it before Thursday, they are available for DL on iTunes.
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