Review of Anima

Anima (I) (2019)
7/10
Highly entertaining and interesting short musical movie with gorgeous music
25 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Anima is a short musical movie with Thom Yorke in the main role and gorgeous music from Nigel Godrich and Thom Yorke too.

This short movie was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson who is most known for 'Punch-Drunk Love' (2002), 'There Will Be Blood' (2007, 'Boogie Nights' (1997) and 'Inherent Vice' (2014). There are only two problems with the director. The first problem is that there was not in one scene logic because Thom Yorke came to the terminal and he couldn't go through it and he was trying and trying to come through instead of jumping through it. Second problem is that in one shot of the scene the lighting and shadows are in a different direction than in the second shot of the same scene but from another angle. If we will omit these two little details this is a very good short musical movie with very strong directing style and the whole movie is like a little art. The whole execution of this short movie is breathtaking and very different from other short musical movies. This short movie is the true definition of an abstract short movie. There are very good looking dance moves which are in the style of a short movie like this in the right place.

Every actor perfectly fits their roles and Thom Yorke is very good and thanks to his very good performance he completes the whole very strong atmosphere of this whole movie. Dajana Roncione who has the role of Featured Performer was wisely chosen by the director of casting because she fits Thom Yorke and the "romantic" scenes where there are both of them are very strong and emotional.

Director of photography Darius Khondji filmed every scene in a very good way of art that every shot is spectacular and fantastic with highly interesting visuals. On the whole the quality of the camera is visible that behind this short musical movie is professional production with a big budget, because evidently the director of photography did not shoot scenes as amateur.

Costumes for this short movie were created by Johanna Garrad. The costumes may seem very simple to the eye and the truth is that the costumes are simple, but the simplicity is working for this type of movie.

Location management Etienne Cannavo, Pepa Hanulik, Roman Potucek and Olivier Sifre have wisely chosen the locations for this movie. The locations are working for this short movie and there is not any problem with the locations because as I've already said that the locations are very good and wisely chosen.

Nigel Godrich and Thom Yorke have created gorgeous and very good music. It is a pity that the short movie is not longer because you will fall in love with that music.

Anima is a highly entertaining and interesting short musical movie with gorgeous music from already mentioned Nigel Godrich and Thom Yorke. This short musical movie is a movie with an interesting, abstract and strange idea of creating a movie. Paul Thomas Anderson handled it very well and the final product could be done as a full featurette movie because this is like a play which could be processed into a screenplay for a full length movie.

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