A Short Film For Thursday

I've been thinking about short films a lot, recently; they really are a kind of red-headed step child of film, aren't they? Mostly because there's so little way to make money off of them , they are usually made early in a director's career, and then abandoned for success or failure. There are a few exceptions, of course - Raoul Ruiz springs to mind, and his incredible "The Film to Come" is available to watch here , though sadly without English subtitles.

The film above is by the Portuguese director Joao Cesar Monteiro, well towards the end of his life (that's him starring). I think it's an almost perfect short, elegantly packing a world of experience into less than three minutes. I'm glad the internet has given a home to this sort of thing, even if it has been cast adrift onto the lonely waters of Youtube, or whatever strained metaphor seems to fit.