I watched this on a friend's Mubi account - the day before it was leaving the streaming service. So glad I caught it. Unlike most Mubi fare, this is a film with so much to say and so much to narratively engage the viewer. It's little short of miraculous that it does it with such limited and economic means, the stories unfolding in simple shots and long dialogues that perfectly pay out the key information to lead us to delicious ironies, fascinating interactions and the deepest of feeling. Not only that, but it does it three times in three separate stories, proving beyond doubt that the neglected art of the short film, done right, can be as or more powerful than the feature.
Review of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
