Some stories have nothing particularly new to say, but that’s okay, because there are always new people who need to learn from them. What it lacks in originality, Luis Gerard’s Oscar-qualifying short makes up for in specificity and quality, and though older viewers will quickly see what’s coming, there’s a lot to admire along the way.
Walter (Isaac Kragten) is a teenager in a small town, the son of the local undertakers. Whilst his father attends to corpses and his mother to mourners, he slips away on his bike and visits the homes of the recently deceased, helping himself to money and small pieces of property unlikely to be missed. Now that his little brother Martin (Zander Colbeck-Bhola) is growing up, he’s decided that it’s time to start taking him along on these expeditions. Martin is Deaf, however, so additional care is needed – he...
Walter (Isaac Kragten) is a teenager in a small town, the son of the local undertakers. Whilst his father attends to corpses and his mother to mourners, he slips away on his bike and visits the homes of the recently deceased, helping himself to money and small pieces of property unlikely to be missed. Now that his little brother Martin (Zander Colbeck-Bhola) is growing up, he’s decided that it’s time to start taking him along on these expeditions. Martin is Deaf, however, so additional care is needed – he...
- 11/25/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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