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Birthday Present

BY Markus Virpio, FINLAND   September 05, 2008 09:09

Review: A pretty woman debates the purchase of a rickety sailboat in this intriguing short film. While her interactions with a blaze dockworker seem to be buried under a thick layer of subtext, filmmaker Markus Virpiƶ leaves you wanting more. Their disaffected communication is an honest glimpse of something yearning beneath the surface, offset in simple actions: like the salting of a hardboiled egg. 

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