User Reviews

This short film was really well done. I saw it at the SSG Shorts Film Festival recently and it was easily the best one I'd seen that day. The story is pretty tight, and the cinematography is great. It's always refreshing to see films shot in scope. The story is quite ambitious in nature, and it's always difficult to do period pieces, especially if they're set in first Century Rome, but the plot is interesting and the payoff is well worth the price of admission. Also, this is a very solid endeavor by a first time director. That said, although I did have a few minor issues with some scenes, I was pretty engrossed. Plus, I think that's standard when you look at any short film, considering you're working with limited resources, a tighter shooting schedule, and a smaller budget. Also, the issues I had had nothing to do with the story. The bottom line is, there was a strong plot with interesting characters in this film, and I enjoyed it immensely. It really felt like a short version of a feature film. Really great work.

It's refreshing to see a short film that has a story; y'know, a beginning, a middle, and an end, maybe a conflict, some sort of climax, and a resolution. This one not only had all of those, it was actually engaging enough to have me on the edge of my seat. I saw it at the SSG Short Films festival last year and just came across it again on Vimeo. Just as good as I remembered it. The cinematography is beautiful, and though I usually find it obnoxious when independent filmmakers shoot in black & white, I found that the colorizing process they did actually lent to the period effect. The score is surprisingly lush and passionate, and the writing is poetic. All in all, an easy recommend, well worth the 20 minutes it takes to look it up and watch it.