This 25 minute short film only came up on my radar when it found its way on to the bonus features of a DVD of Andrea Arnold's gob-smacking "Fish Tank".It's a torrent of a film, plunging us down stairwells, plonking us on the pavement outside council-estate pubs, unceremoniously dumping us on the scrubby grass between residential tower blocks as vindictive rows play their joyless way out over our heads.
Within about 45 seconds of the film starting I knew I cared about this woman and her children, and about what would have happened to them by the end of the day, and about whether the simple business of finding some food and going on a date would be too much for her.
It just goes to show that the Oscar committee might not be completely dominated by star-struck cheese-merchants that "Wasp" won an award for best live-action short film.
Heart-rending and brutal in the same frame.
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