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Tiny Lights (MSPIFF 44)
Cast: Mia Banko, Elizaveta Maximova,Veronika Zilkova
Writer and Director: Beta Parkanova
* and a 1/2 out of Five Stars
A little girl spends the day with her grandparents after discovering her mother is leaving. Not fully aware that her parents are separating. During the beautiful day with Grandma and Grandpa, they go swimming and have a picnic. Later on her dad reads her a story before bed. She wakes up in the middle of the night, looks out a window and… that’s it. The end.
Yup the whole seventy five minutes of this feature was from this six year old’s perspective and while she was a very good actor. This was a very dull movie with no conflict or even a plot to discuss. When the film starts and we learn about the parents’ separating I thought it was going to be like the feature What Maisie Knew. Which also deals with a young girl whose parents are going through a divorce. But Tiny Lights never explores that aspect. We spend more time with the grandparents arguing about their daughter than we do with the actual parents going through the break up.
This should have been a 15 to 25 minute short because there is some beautiful cinematography. Even when it cuts to these random still shots for no reason. They were still beautiful to look at. Watching Tiny Lights was like watching someone’s home movies. They seem like nice people and uou want to be polite but the whole time you can not wait for it to end.
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