The film’s ambition, empathy, and visual beauty reward those who choose to commit to its formidable length and uncompromising vision.
A nagging sense of incompletion haunts 9, Shane Acker’s feature-length expansion of his Oscar-nominated 2004 short.
A very mixed bag of shorts, in which even the strongest offerings come riddled with flaws.
The film revolves around one of middlebrow prestige cinema’s favorite types: the elderly widower with a crinkly smile and a kind heart full of sad memories.