DC Shorts Blog
review: “JUST ANOTHER DAY”
Director: Gioele Donnamaria
Running Time: 14:32
Genre: Drama
Just Another Day is a simple but heartrending story about a young boy who must care for his mother after she is left catatonic in the same car crash that killed his father. While the actors have difficulty embracing what is fairly typical dialogue, the story is one that largely tells itself. Viewers are made to truly feel for a story rooted in its tragic simplicity. The short is supported by good camera work and music that does an excellent job of setting a mood of tragedy and tedium, pushing through each day just like the day before it with nothing but an identical day lying ahead.
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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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