Pretty poor short film, produced as a BBC Scotland 'Tartan Short' in 2001. The film, about a man struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife, is warm at heart but is incompetently shot, directed and acted. The film contains a potentially nice dream/dance sequence that is at odds with the yawningly over-familiar 'gritty' acting and hand-held camera work. Along with the other two 2001 'Tartan Shorts', this feels as though it was drastically cut down in order to make the ridiculous 8-minute running time. But even if it had been twice as long, 'Manji' would still have been very third-rate.(* out of *****)
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