Oscar Shorts 2017: Live Action
— This year’s Oscar nominees for Live Action Short Film are a good group. “Ennemis Intérieurs” (Sélim Azzazi’s interview that is more like an interrogation, of a French-born Algerian who is seeking naturalization by a French police officer of Algerian descent) is probably the best framed and edited of the group, but it lacks some of the heart a few of the others have. By contrast, “Sing” (Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy’s tale of a new girl who joins her new school’s award-winning choir, only to discover the truth about their fame) is almost too heartfelt for my tastes. I really liked “La Femme et le TGV” (Timo von Gunten’s touching story about a lonely woman and TGV train driver) and “Timecode" (Juanjo Giménez’s light look the relationship between two parking garage security guards, one working the day shift and the other the night shift). My favorite, partly because it's the most complex and touches on issues from different perspectives, but mostly because it's one I've remembered most of the group, is “Silent Night” (Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson’s tale of a Danish woman who meets and undocumented immigrant from Ghana while volunteering at a homeless shelter, falls in love and begins to build a life with him until a secret from his past alters their course). All of the nominees are good and worth seeing.
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