The 2023 Oscar-nominated live-action shorts are highlighted by fascinating choices by a promising group of filmmakers, whether lacing environments with hidden meanings, fashioning a visual poem, letting Buster Keaton crash into harsh social reality, calmly observing character comedy or having a playful good time.
'An Irish Goodbye'
It hasn't escaped "An Irish Goodbye" co-director Ross White that his country's "The Banshees of Inisherin" and "The Quiet Girl" have also received Oscar nominations this year, and all three films deal with "characters in a rural Irish location dealing with loneliness, isolation and desperate for connection," he says. "Maybe it is a bit of something that is in the Irish mind at the minute."
