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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Beautiful, moving film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The 80-year-old "Rainbow Dance" is a 4-minute animated short film by filmmaker Len Lye from New Zealand. It is an earlier career effort from him and he was in his mid-30s when he made this little movie. It is very color, with radiant animation and a soundtrack that may get you in the mood to dance. I personally only did not manage to really enjoy it because it is an experimental movie and there was no real story in here. It is all about the atmosphere, a positive one in here, very positive. Several sports are referenced to by the characters we see. All in all, not a bad watch by any means, but also nothing really memorable. I hope Lye's other works leave a bigger impression on me. Not recommended.

Ranbow Dance is another great abstraction animated short by Len Lye. This time there's a silhouette of Rupert Doone dancing in front of a rainbow in the beginning. Doone plays tennis later on in the short. All this is combined in a collage of images of color and various money bills, coins, and press clippings. At the end is an announcement:"The Post Office Savings Bank puts a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for you. No deposit too small for the Post Office Savings Bank." The music is by Walter Leigh. Having seen most of these shorts on YouTube, I just can't get enough of these experimental shorts! I can't believe I stayed up all night just to see anything by Len Lye, who I haven't heard of until today when there was an item in the Cartoon Brew. Maybe, I'll look another Lye short up...