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: “After Rain” (Péter Mészáros) 2002
RUNNING TIME: 3:45
Why You Should Watch It: A leaf floating in still water. A man in a doorframe. A woman riding her bicycle, falling, and then getting to her feet. A Palme d’or for Best Short Film at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It might not seem to add up, especially because – upon first blush – “After Rain” almost plays like a parody of student filmmaking (that mournful violin score kinda puts things over the top). And yet, watching the film for a second time (highly encouraged, by the way) reveals that this deceptively innocuous portrait of an uncertain domestic situation is a masterclass in semiotics, writer / director Péter Mészáros carefully parceling out information so as to create a certain infinity of potential meaning with a poverty of direct action. Nothing is certain, as the chronology, threats, and signifiers are all confused until all we know is that there is an irreconcilable gulf between what we see and what we know.
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