Beautifully put together, this short is a little gem. It's wonderful to see Ron Moody still working his magic on the screen. His role here echoes his Oscar-nominated performance as Fagin in Oliver! You know you've seen something good when you find yourself quoting lines - "Perfection has a price!"
Nicely directed, it's visually imaginative - there's a dream sequence that could have come straight out of Hitchcock's Spellbound - and excellent use of music to tell the story.
Like your favorite dusty old book, Chopsticks has an old-world charm about it that I found refreshing. At the beginning of the film you are rooting for the pupil (played by Matthew Pidgeon). Ron Moody's character first comes across as a deluded, bitter old man but by the end he's the one you have sympathy for.
Nicely directed, it's visually imaginative - there's a dream sequence that could have come straight out of Hitchcock's Spellbound - and excellent use of music to tell the story.
Like your favorite dusty old book, Chopsticks has an old-world charm about it that I found refreshing. At the beginning of the film you are rooting for the pupil (played by Matthew Pidgeon). Ron Moody's character first comes across as a deluded, bitter old man but by the end he's the one you have sympathy for.