Ticky Tacky (dir. Brian Petsos, 2014)
Lucien (Oscar Isaac) likes menswear, vintage pornography, and doughnuts. He dislikes infidelity, especially when it involves his girlfriend Claire (Erika Rankin) cheating on him with his cousin Nikolai (Tim Rock). He still has his loyal retainers in his assistant Marguerite (Helen Rogers) and Gabriel (Julian Shatkin), a boy in a suit who has a switchblade. Driven to despair, he seeks revenge on Claire and Nikolai.
Nikolai is also dressed as Santa, which I think qualifies this short as a Christmas movie.
A quick glance at the reviews on Letterboxd reveals the fairly obvious: everyone—and I mean everyone—wants to get down with Oscar Isaac, and also the compositional similarities to the work of Wes Anderson. Both are true.
It’s a fun fifteen minutes.
oliveresque 