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Film Noir (S)

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Original title: Film Noir
Year: 2006
Running time: 4 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Osbert Parker
Screenwriter: Osbert Parker
Cast: Animation
Cinematography: Animation, Osbert Parker
Producer: Osbert Parker
Genre: Animation. Film noir | Neo-noir. Experimental Cinema. Surrealism. Stop Motion. Short Film (Animated)
Synopsis: This is not a linear story. It's more like just taking a dive into the filmmaker's dream. Film Noir kicks-off with a fist smashing through a door window, and a hand reaching in to grab the doorknob, and then the shooting starts! Close-ups of revolvers blazing and a body crammed into a suitcase. After that, it's really all about the dark images of noir. Animated photos of cops and dames fight their way through a treacherous world of curtains, shadows and murder. Wonderful. All of this to sound of period film soundtrack, with dramatic piano chords and horns.

Osbert takes classic noir iconography and remakes it his own. A cut-out beautiful dame turns with a look of fear and shock into the camera, a living/cut out man in a smoking jacket gets shot and falls to the ground and becomes paper again. We jump into color and we're on the streets of maybe-1940s Los Angeles, a stop-motion world of yellow cabs and what may well be a cut-out Cary Grant walking down the street. A detective consults a huge-eyeball at the scene of a murder. One of the spookiest bits is when Osbert cuts in real life moving slugs that slime their way over a dead but beautiful woman in a body bag.

Awards: 2006: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Best Short Film

2005: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Short Animation

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Film Noir (S)

2006

Osbert Parker

5.8

(194)