Bowl of Oatmeal
6 /10 1 Votes
Director Dietmar Post Cinematography Dietmar Post Genres Short Film, Drama Writer Lawrence Gise Language English | 6/10 IMDb Sequel Cloven Hoofed Distributed by Play Loud! Productions Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 1996 at UFVA Student Film and Video Festival in Philadelphia (USA) People also search for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl of Oatmeal is a 1996 film directed & produced by a group of six students at New York University - School of Continuing Education. Among this group was the award winning German-American film director Dietmar Post. The American-Chilean theatre actor Pietro Gonzales played the key character. Gonzales appeared later in many plays, TV series and also in Sidney Pollacks The Interpreter.
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A lonely man on the brink of emotional desolation talks to his Oatmeal. His need for friendship compels the man to a bizarre act.
Cast
Synopsis
A lonely man on the brink of emotional desolation talks to his Oatmeal. His need for friendship compels the man to a bizarre act.
Critical reception
The film premiered at UFVA Student Film and Video Festival in Philadelphia (USA), September 1996.
Bowl of Oatmeal was well received by critics and gained recognition among lovers of underground movies. Especially underground film festivals, such as, the ones in Chicago and New York were very supportive of this film.
Michael Simmons of L.A. Weekly writes: "Bowl of Oatmeal, a rare group effort led by Dietmar Post, is the tale of a hermit in the throes of a nervous breakdown who receives advice from a sly, articulate bowl of oatmeal with a Bostonian accent."
British critic Rob Daniel writes: “Bowl of Oatmeal serves as a dress rehearsal for the final film, but in its own right stands as unsettling cinema. An agoraphobic loner inexorably loses his mind within the confines of a bed-sit. Not even the revelation that a bowl of unappetizing oatmeal is taunting him alleviates the gloom. As the high fiber breakfast continues its needling, the man develops a keen interest in dead meat, but the film takes this into an area unexpected and haunting.”
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References
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