A ballerina (Yolanda Chong Wei Ting) is doing a dress rehearsal of a
solo performance, and remembers how it all started, how she loved to thumb
through pictures of ballerinas as a little girl (then played by Micole
Pang Yi Xuan), how her father (Yang Ket Liang) got her her first tutu,
encouraged her to learn to dance ballet, how he picked her up when she
fell, ultimately taught her to pick herself up - and how he died -
playing the piano, while she was rehearsing a routine. And in spirit, it
seems, the father's still with the ballerina, while she has never stopped
being the littl girl. A touching short that tells its story
through dance and music, but also through looks and gestures, and that
manages to tie the two narrative levels together as closely as possible in
a subtle way, without drawing too much attention to the filmmaking behind
it. Likewise, ballet dancing is shown in a very loving way, but it never
smothers the story behind it. That said, the short might be a bit of a
tearjerker, so maybe not for everyone, but it's remarkably free of
clichées and kitsch.
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