Shorts
Marcel
Director: Jean Achache
A pair of con men try to sell a fake Duchamp sculpture to a gallery curator wise to their scam.
Parting Words
A little too good-looking and a lot too wild, an intoxicated Laura gets the pot boiling with a shocking toast at her best friend's wedding.
Sita Sings the Blues
Three shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this animated interpretation of the epic Ramayana.
I enjoyed it very much, up until the slap and the gun which came out of nowhere. I didn’t believe that the gallery owner would pull a gun on the two men, any more than the man would slap her. It was fun and gentle prodding of the art world up until then, and then it became something else, and then flipped back to the humor with the urinal scene.
I rarely pick the winner (which is OK). This one was a great intellectual exercise, and fun, much preferable to the winner, which was gentle, amiable and boring. Oh, and the slap and gun made a valid point, cleverly advancing the artistic duel of words a step further.
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