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All this month we’ve been reviewing the Oscar nominees for the best animated, live-action, and documentary short films, alternating daily between categories. Check back tomorrow for the final installment.
Color gives our lives meaning without having any real meaning itself. I kept thinking this as I watched Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine’s Inocente, a disarming profile of a homeless 15-year-old girl in San Diego who gets a big break when she’s chosen to create a 30-work show for a local gallery as part of the nonprofit program ARTS. The movie’s guiding visual motif is an overhead time-lapse shot of Inocente at work, creating boldly colorful canvases with happy, cartoonish forms but fairly sophisticated layerings of dripped paint and other stuff. They’re beautiful, and they make you marvel at the heart that could create them while bearing so much unhappiness day to day.
