The second "World According to Shorts" compilation is more accurately "France According to Shorts," since that's where its six award-winning less-than-feature-length components originate. Rooted in an ongoing program presented by New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music, this is the second such collection packaged for theatrical release, and pales next to the first, genuinely international installment.
In Guillaume Martinez's charming, if slight, 2005 Gratte-Papier ("Pen Pusher"), two attractive bibliophiles flirt on the metro by underlining words in their reading materials. Using voice over and still images, Algerian-born photographer Farida Hamak's <...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins