A terrible date, an unfortunate sweater and one tiny act of kindness are enough to carry five minutes. Sweater is a gay short film with a sharp comic rhythm, but Nick Borenstein never lets the joke become mean. The melancholy under the humour is what makes the final lift work; optimism feels earned because the day has been genuinely awful.
Two 25-year-old men meet by chance, fall deeply in love, and are abruptly separated by an unexpected event. For the next thirty years, they hold onto the hope of reuniting.
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A terrible date, an unfortunate sweater and one tiny act of kindness are enough to carry five minutes. Sweater is a gay short film with a sharp comic rhythm, but Nick Borenstein never lets the joke become mean. The melancholy under the humour is what makes the final lift work; optimism feels earned because the day has been genuinely awful.
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