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review: “Aphrodite’s Farm”
Director: Adam Strange
Running Time: 15 minutes
Genre: Fantasy, drama
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Aphrodite’s Farm is a cute and endearing short that nevertheless runs the risk of confusing audiences. Part fantasy, part love story, it is whimsical and stylized out of another time, depicting the magic of the title farm. When the man of the family who runs it dies, it is up to a new farmhand, Friday, to save the day while the matron of the family comically shoos him away from her three young daughters. An innovative approach with modest attempts at humor, the short is well shot and is fully the fairytale it tries to be, one so fantastical that it might perhaps lose viewers.
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Reviewed films were randomly selected from the hundreds of entries to the 2009 DC Shorts Film Festival. The reviews are written by Bryan Koenig, an intern with an interest in film review and journalism. The opinions expressed are his own, and not that of the independent judging panel, the DC Shorts Film Festival staff, or the staff and Board of the DC Film Alliance.
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