A Kid Meets His Mother’s Strange New Boyfriend in Surreal ShortChez Moi

In movie maker Phiong Mai Nguyen ’s scant fantasy film Chez Moi , a little boy is startled to encounter his dear mother ’s newfangled swain one morn at the breakfast tabular array . take a shit matters even more distressing : he ’s not a homo , but rather a giant hiss . Wearing a shirt and tie , and seemingly friendly … but still . A BIRD .

Chez Moi resembles drawing from a children ’s Word of God come to life , but it ’s phantasmagoric and dark , like a queen tale set up in a time when youngster fatigue hoodies and eat on monster - themed breakfast cereal grass . Is the man really a shuttlecock - adult male , or just a scary adversary conjured by a mixed-up boy ? The motion picture exit it just as it should — equivocal .

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