• The Bottom Line [ Magazine Aug 17, 2007 Issue 26 ]

Article: The 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. By Scott Brassart

... When asked to name the year's one must-see short Macdonald suggests two. "My favorites are Mu and The Tonto Woman," he says. Mu is a Brazilian-American co-production, the filmmaker is Australian, but really it's Japanese...

... The film is done so masterfully, the directorial technique, the cinematography, the script, every facet of it ..."

 

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• The Desert Sun [ Newspaper Aug 27, 2007 Section D]

Today's Picks :

Darryl Macdonald, Palm Springs Festival Director:

"It's the rare film that makes me cast aside my preconceptions about cinema and watch it from an entirely different perspective, but "Mu" did that in spades....

This exotic crime story-come-mystery is visually breathtaking, and makes the viewer put together the pieces of its fractured story for themselves. It's spellbinding short filmmaking..."

 

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