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    The live-action shorts: Playful Christmas tales, fraternal friction, a 'visual poem' and social strife

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Feb 23, 2023 4 minutes
    Alfonso Cuarón attends the screening of the Disney+ live-action short "Le Pupille" at the Four Seasons Hotel on Jan. 7, 2023, in Los Angeles.

    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

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