"Play" is a 15-minute short film based on a work by Samuel Beckett. The director is the late Anthony Mingella and he cast a trio of actors that he worked with on several occasions again: Rickman and Stevenson on "Truly Madly Deeply" for example and Kristin Scott Thomas on "The English Patient" of course. Rickman looked a bit like Geoffrey Rush in here I thought. Anyway, we see a world full of urns with heads coming out of these. These heads keep constantly rambling and shouting, but only talk to themselves, not to each other. The makeup work was maybe the best thing about this little movie. It added a nice atmospheric touch to it. i cannot say I was too amazed by the contents however. I did not care for any of the 3 main characters to be honest, neither in a positive nor negative way, and that's usually the worst that could happen. Also, if you are not an English native speaker, make sure you get subtitles, because the dialogs are incredibly fast from start to finish. Final verdict: not a great watch.
Review of Play
