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Anonymous (review)

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Reviewed by KC Ifeanyi
(from the 2007 Cannes Film Festival)

Director: Cristian Pozo
Starring: Alvaro Ramos, Luz Altamira
Genre: Drama/Romance

In-a-nutshell:
Take Jean-Pierre Jeunet's visionary directorial characteristics, add a touch of Jack Nicholson's famous typewriter scene in The Shining, and toss in a coy romance between two strangers to get the quirky concoction that is Anonymous.

 

Director Cristian Pozo's innovative short focuses on Laura and Fred, two neighbors who are obviously burning with passion for each other but stay at a casual distance, only exchanging shy "Hi's" on the elevator.

It's soon revealed that Fred is an author on a tight deadline, battling one of the worst possible ailments of a novelist: writer's block. Frustration turns to paranoia, however, when Fred awakes one morning not to find his frantically written nonsense he wrote the night before, but a cleanly typed narrative of everything he did before he fell asleep. When this happens again the following morning, Fred reaches nervous breakdown status as he tries to figure out who's the author of his every move. Could it be his mysterious crush Laura or is he really losing his mind?

Selected Festivals Featured
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival: Best Director - short film genre
Festival de Cortometrajes SONORAMA (Spain): Best Short
The European Independent Film Festival: Best Director and Best Film Editing
Oxford International Film Festival: Best of the Festival




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