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Actor Phil Hall is
something of a perfectionist, a man who really fancies himself an
improvisational artist. It's not too often we see actors in films who
are willing to improvise, and Phil Hall is a man who has co-starred in
many independent films and is an individual who believes in the ability
to improvise to give us moments in film that scripts can't conceive.
"Uncorked" is a thirty minute experimental short featuring actor Phil
Hall basically staging his own one man show where he shows the audience
what he's capable of in the realm of improv and playing it by ear. For
fans of the theater, "Uncorked" is an impressive and oddly entertaining
bit of one man showmanship where star Phil Hall (playing a character) sits on a park bench and
proceeds to divulge every single anecdote about his life all the while
chucking unusual one-liners at the viewer that are laugh riots and will
be easily missed.
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Star Hall
as this character has a unique presence on screen where he's able to keep the
attention on him and his character even when he's rambling
on about dwarves and lighters, and it makes for some
fascinating monologues, and a surefire example of how to
keep the screen on you and use your body as an instrument to
keep the audience compelled and without diversion. And even
when we're sitting down and wondering where this is leading
we can't help but notice that "Uncorked" is basically
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Does a film need a
plot to keep audiences entertained? We're not sure why this
character
is the spotlight of this little event caught on camera, and we're
not sure why he's such an interesting being, but surely enough we're
allowed to capture a glimpse in to a man with a lot to say who
doesn't mind giving away too much information for the audience and
greeting us with a glazed expression of ignorance whenever he makes
a comment about his dick and getting erections to Judi Dench.
"Uncorked" watches very much like a short play, and it's one that
can keep audiences watching and observing, if only to see if Hall's
character will ever get that damn cigarette lit.
Almost the antithesis of
a formula short film, "Uncorked" is in a league all its own channeling
the likes of Jim Jarmusch and Richard Linklater to express a verbose and
often entertaining character piece that may not be apart of a bigger
narrative, but is still about something of substance at the end of the
day.
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