Welcome to Your Daily Short, a new feature on Film.com that will highlight and stream a short film at high noon. Every weekday. Every week.
TODAY’S SHORT: “Brazzaville Teen-Ager” (Michael Cera) 2013
RUNNING TIME: 19:33
WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH IT: A dramatic comedy about a kid named Gunther (Cera) who tries to connect to his dying father by convincing his boss to sing the background vocals on a new Kelis track (for a short film, it’s a long story), “Brazzaville Teen-Ager” is a strange but compulsively watchable new episode in the working life of Michael Cera, dropping on the actor’s YouTube channel yesterday and anticipating his transition into more serious roles (he starred in two deeply dark Sundance films earlier this year). Obviously based on a short story (it has that certain tone) and droll to the end, Cera’s short – which is too satisfying to feel like a put-on, suggests that the kid has reservoirs of unknown talent
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