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Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life |
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Richard E. Grant presents Franz Kafka as a tortured artist of a different kind in the title offering of this collection of festival favorite shorts. Bent over a writing desk one Christmas searching for a suitable transformation for the protagonist of his new story "The Metamorphosis" (a banana?), Kafka's writer's block is compounded by a party, a saleswoman with a giant cockroach costume, and a shady knife salesman scurrily searching for "his little friend." In a thoroughly un-Kafkaesque twist, Franz discovers the true meaning of Christmas. Also included in the collection is The Deal, a big-business farce about two powerful businessmen who meet clandestinely to hatch a merger that will change the face of business as we know it and seal the deal with a dance and bit of mutual admiration at the size of one another's... assets. Seven Gates, a serio-comic look at two brothers who bicker, cajole, and face their anxieties on their way to a family Christmas gathering, is a wry and generally dead-on study in opposites. The final offering, the black-and-white drama Mr. McAllister's Cigarette Holder, is a gently meandering tale of love and pride that brings a poor hired hand and his wary albino girlfriend together and the symbolic sacrifice made to preserve their dignity. Each of the shorts displays a sure sense of cinema and a mixture of rich textures and brevity that marks the best short-story writing. --Sean Axmaker
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