Horst in Translation ([email protected])
"No Time" is a 23-minute live action short film from 1994, so this one will have its 25th anniversary two years from now or maybe it already had it in the past depending on when you check out my review. This is an early career effort by Darren Aronofsky, who is considered among the greatest American visionaries in filmmaking these days, so it is truly hard to believe this shamelessly in-your-face and over-the-top comedy we have here was actually directed by him. At least it was not written by him, but by quite a few other people surprisingly given the running time. Okay it does look amateurish and having seen it once is probably already one time too many, but this film can also give young filmmakers hope because regardless of how hopeless your early efforts may have seemed, you may still have masterpieces like "Requiem for a Dream" or "The Wrestler" inside you. Hard to believe that the former came out just six years after this short film we got here that is honestly way closer to a garbage rating of */***** than to a decent ***/*****. Also there is no denying it would be entirely forgotten by now without Aronofsky's name attached the project. Production values are low, the writing is revolting and none of the other cast and crew members are at least semi-famous. Many of them never worked on a film again or just had a really tiny job in another D.A. work later on. Don't watch.
