Garpenfargle
By Miguel Coyula • Sep 30th, 2004 • Category: ComedyThis comedy short from Bill Kersey and Edward Kim features one of the best dog actors seen at the no/low budget level. Again, like Kersey’s short Solace, although completely different in tone, this is a story told without words. It concerns a bored poodle left home alone for a few hours and his burning need to explore his owner’s trash bin despite being told not to do so. The expressions and timing of the dog are so precise that at times it feels like one is watching a cartoon.
The short is very well executed and is successful at conveying not just the dog’s black-and-white point-of-view, but is also successful as it allows you to enter the dog’s emotional perspective, (or at least what we humans think his emotional perspective would be). While from a human standpoint the story might be too thin - after all, the story chronicles a regular day in a dog’s life and it takes skill to make that interesting - the film is well paced and never fails to entertain or make the viewer laugh.
In the end, Garpenfargle is a funny short with no other pretense than to entertain and it does so quite well.
Three stars
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Miguel Coyula is the director of the $2,000 sci-fi epic Red Cockroaches. His next project is Memorias del Desarrollo, a follow-up to the Cuban classic Memorias del Subdesarrollo (1968), based on the novel by Cuban writer Edmundo Desnoes
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