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30 utilisateurs sur 35 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Cashback, a short film, long on imagination and wit., 16 juin 2004

Auteur : blaise douglas de London, England

Cashback is a gem of a short film. It has a unique visual aesthetic laced with a wicked sense of humour. Sean Ellis gets beautiful performances from his actors, played out beneath the life sapping neon of this enclosed world, brilliantly creating the boredom of the lives of the nightshift workers in a 24 hour supermarket. We're sucked into their twilight existence and treated to the surreal, bizarre and comic; as the characters each find their way to make it through the graveyard shift.

It makes you laugh and makes you think.You'll never look at a store worker the same way again. It's a short film, long on wit and imagination.

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Amazing Shampoo Bottles!!, 3 juin 2004

Auteur : KALLISTUART

A completely refreshing short movie that is able to combine many different emotions in 20 minutes!

Working on the night shift in Sainsbury's, the movie shows how all the staff manage to pass the time to cope with the boredom of an 8 hour work shift.

Each with a completely different view on doing this which range from a meat counter, dairy products, plasters,shampoos and a unique imagination that will have you in rumination one minute, flustered the next and then laughing the other.

A brilliant performance from all actors/actresses.

I can't help but smile when I go shopping at Sainsbury's late at night...

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Art in Motion, 10 décembre 2005

Auteur : wlazarou

When I first watched this movie I couldn't get past the nudity enough to see the art. I watched it again and started to see that the nudes were so perfect they were more like mannequins than anything else. How can a movie about night-fill at a supermarket possibly be any good? Add Sean Biggerstaff , humour, and an outstanding writer/director such as Sean Ellis, and you get the perfect mix. Sean Ellis, in his first attempt at movie making, takes you on a journey that perfectly mixes art ( nudity, lighting, Ben's drawings), with humour. One can easily see that Sean Ellis has a great career ahead of him. One can only hope for more like him still to come! The amount of detail put into such a short amount of time certainly makes the film worthy of all the awards it has received at various festivals. The new one is now finished and ready for distribution. I'm looking forward to seeing the full length film now!

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A clever short with a unique atmosphere, 2 août 2005

Auteur : niarchosn de Royaume-Uni

Sainsburys, the night shift, nothing could be more dull. What could be worse than a movie about this seemingly mindnumbingly boring activity. However, from the very first moment, the movie grabs your attention and puts you in the shoes of Ben.

The shots are done with style and panache and particularly effective is the use of the bleak, artificial supermarket lighting which throws this whole surreal, sleepless world into perspective. Also effective is the portrayal of the nude women who are almost alien in their stillness and with their flawless features. Sean Biggerstaff is a real asset to the film as his flawless acting and his narration especially complement the film to a great extent. The comedy elements coupled with the creation of a unique atmosphere make this film what it is. However, the imagination and the simple fact that so many ideas are crammed into the fifteen or so minutes of this short really make this film incredible.

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watch the full length movie :), 16 juillet 2007

Auteur : ssto de New York, USA

alright - i first watched the full length movie, and this prompted me to look up the original short movie. i was astonished to see the exact scenes from the full movie comprise this short length. initially i thought somehow these scenes were later integrated into the full length, but my thought is that the full length was probably already in post-production when someone decided to 'promote' the film by giving out this short version first (which is nothing bad).

it actually works as a short movie, but having seen the full one i cant really comment on it because it is like a trailer to the full movie - it has the essence of the main plot, but nothing more than a hint of the beautiful ideas and artwork of the full length movie.

i loved the full movie, watch it and probably you will like it too

10/10, which is how i vote for the full length movie :)

peace

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It's all about effective time management, 1 mai 2005

Auteur : Lady_Rogue de PA, US

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I literally just got back from my trip to NYC to see this film at the Tribeca Film Festival.

I went in knowing it would be interesting, but I had no idea how amazed I would be. The story is so detailed and character oriented that you are drawn into the world and become attached to these characters. All in 19 minutes. And it is a beautiful artistic world.

Sean Ellis and Sean Biggerstaff were both on hand for the Q&A session following the showing. Sean Ellis revealed the plans for the full length feature, saying that the short itself will be placed in the film intact and the rest of the movie will happen before and after it. He joked that he was lucky that he already has a 20-minute trailer for the film.

The film was amazing and I can't wait to see it as a full length feature.

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Entertaining, if not earthshaking, 28 décembre 2006

Auteur : Robert Reynolds (minniemato@hotmail.com) de Tucson AZ

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This was the "weakest" of the five nominees for the Live-Action Short category bestowed by AMPAS, which means it was only very good in a field of excellent shorts. Because I want to discuss the short in a little detail, there will be spoilers:

The basic premise is that people who work on the clock at a supermarket during the late shift all have different ways to make the time seem to go by more quickly, ranging from just not looking at the clock through simply goofing off to the most extreme, which is pretending that you've cause time and all movement but your own to come to a full stop. Along the way, we meet a female checkout clerk, the overbearing and absolutely tedious supervisor who keeps trying to impress her (in vain), two arrested development cases, who are 22 going on 12 and the narrator, who is the one who makes time pass by acting like he's stopped it cold. Oh yeah-he also likes to sketch the female shoppers (at least the prettier ones) in the nude.

His narration is generally entertaining and often funny. It's an entertaining short which may actually make a better feature, as it feels a tad constrained by its brevity. All in all, a good short and well worth watching.

This short is available on a compilation DVD containing eight of ten nominees for the two Academy Awards Shorts categories (two of the Animated Short nominees aren't included) and it's a very good DVD indeed. Recommended.

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Amusing little short that doesn't have the content to deliver on the artistic offerings in second half (SPOILERS), 31 janvier 2009
Auteur : bob the moo de Birmingham, UK

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Ben is an art student who works in his local Sainsbury's to pay his bills. As with all his colleagues the mind-numbing work makes time go even slower than it normally would and each of them deals with it different ways. Some cut off all contact with clocks, some mess around and try and have fun but for Ben it is different. His knack is to freeze time dead in its tracks and embrace the freedom this gives him – a freedom that his creative side and appreciation of the female form takes full advantage of.

Someone recommended the film Cashback to me and, when I discovered it was originally a short film I decided to watch it first. The film is a game of two halves and I'm not entirely sure how it all fits together. The first half is a perfectly amusing bit about the realities of a menial job, one where you do the same thing over and over again and cannot escape the reality that it doesn't matter what they do. This reminded me a little of Employee of the Month in the way that those in the supermarket find to pass the time, playing games or other little knacks. In this regard the film is amusing but not hilarious and I was assuming that the film would mine this vein harder for its punch line.

That it didn't do this is not a problem but what it did do didn't fit with the tone of the first half. What the film becomes is Ben freezing time to mostly undress women and appreciate their bodies. It is presented as an artistic pursuit but it felt a bit odd to me to see the character of Ben undressing women without their consent and it made me wonder what the point was. The problem with it is that it doesn't have a strong point to this to back up the suggestion that it is artistic and not just weird and smacking slightly of misogyny. Instead it falls back into a punch line related to the first half of the film but not one that ties to this sudden venture into female nudity.

The end result is still amusing but I'm not seeing what about this got it Oscar nominated. It has some good ideas but it doesn't do enough with them to deliver on the potential. The comedy stuff isn't done with enough humour and imagination, while the artistic stuff isn't fully realised, leaving it feeling a bit weird with what it is saying/doing with the bodies of unaware young women. Distracting stuff though and I will be looking at the full film to see what Ellis does with more time and resources to expand upon this.

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Film short that eventually was made into a full length movie., 18 mai 2008
Auteur : TxMike de Houston, Tx, USA, Earth

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This 18-minute film short won a number of awards, and in 2004 was nominated for the Oscar for best short. It is included in the DVD extras section of the 2006 movie of the same name.

Anyone offended by frank and explicit female nudity, from several different angles, should avoid this movie, even though it is a romantic comedy.

Set in England with British actors, the title has two references in the movie, which takes place largely in a supermarket and among its employees. When customers pay with some type of debit card, they are asked if they want any "cash back." Also, character Ben Willis, in art college, can't sleep after his girlfriend dumps him, so he gets a night shift job at the supermarket, making use of that otherwise useless 8 hours, and for his efforts gets "cash back." Sean Biggerstaff is Ben Willis, art student who gets dumped. The cashier at the supermarket is Emilia Fox as Sharon Pintey, and they take a liking to each other.

The movie has a very unique premise, Ben can seemingly stop time, where everything around him freezes until he puts his hands together and "cracks" his fingers. For a few minutes, or days. Having been curious since a small boy about the female figure, he stops time in the supermarket and partially undresses the pretty ladies and draws them, and of course putting all their garments back in order before he resumes time.

It is not totally clear whether he is really stopping time, which would be a fantasy element, but it appears that he is, otherwise he wouldn't have had time to draw all the nice, complex drawings he made.

Very interesting and entertaining movie, if seeing female nudity doesn't bother you.

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A good film, apart from the lack of gratitude towards Nicholson Baker, 25 avril 2009

Auteur : antoinecatry de France

An OK film, it raises funnily and cleverly the questions of sex, beauty and the private moments of life. Nevertheless, I have just discovered this film a couple of weeks ago during a visit at the video store and you know what my first thought was after reading the summary of the film on the DVD cover ? "This is Nicholson Baker ! And not a single mention of it !" I read the ""Fermata in 2004 and the book upon the shelves of my library offered the possibility to share views with the help of pieces of paper between the pages, I believe it is what you call book crossing. This book, although I don't read that much, provided a great sensation because in my adolescence, I vividly wanted that kind of freezing power to undress women. Nicholson Baker has had the art of translating a common human (male especially) fantasy, I believe. I know ever since he did it again by imagining a man desirous to kill George W. Bush in "Checkpoint" after seeing the news in Iraq ! Even if many of us had that kind of fantasy, I doubt Sean Ellis was unaware of the Fermata in the process of writing Cashback, therefore, he should have added an ounce of gratitude to Baker. According to what I read on the Internet, I'm not the only one thinking that way.

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