Few things are certain in the Oscars short film categories, but a few stories about kids will usually land nominations. There’s something about childhood, that universal land of nostalgia, that just gets Oscar voters going. In “Like the Ones I Used to Know” (“Les Grandes Claques”), an equal parts tender and lighthearted narrative set in the 1980s, Quebecois filmmaker Annie St-Pierre has mastered the art of the poignant childhood tale. Like all great shorts, the film takes a simple premise — a recent divorcee picking his kids up from their mother’s house on Christmas — and elegantly uses specificity to tap into something achingly universal.
“That’s what interests me most in cinema: To zoom in on a micro moment that has a meta effect on the life of the characters. I think the format of short film is fantastic for that,” St-Pierre said in a recent interview. “You can...
“That’s what interests me most in cinema: To zoom in on a micro moment that has a meta effect on the life of the characters. I think the format of short film is fantastic for that,” St-Pierre said in a recent interview. “You can...
- 2/1/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The live-action short film from writer and director Annie St-Pierre, “Les Grandes Claques” (also known as “Like the Ones I Used to Know”) premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and focuses on a father (Steve Laplante) who goes to his former in-laws’ house to collect his children (Lilou Roy-Lanouette and Laurent Lemaire) on Christmas Eve. After winning the Academy Award-qualifying Grand Prize for Narrative Short at last year’s Indy Shorts International Film Festival, the h264 film has now been shortlisted for the 2022 Oscars. “I really wanted to do a [story about] ‘double coming-of-age,’ because I wanted to think and talk about how family links impact our capacity to grow,” St-Pierre tells Gold Derby in our exclusive video interview (watch above).
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“I really think that… we are impacted by the path of the other members of our family,” St-Pierre continues.
See 2022 Oscars shortlists in 10 categories: International Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Original Song, Score …
“I really think that… we are impacted by the path of the other members of our family,” St-Pierre continues.
- 1/12/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
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