This is It
This is It
| 25 November 1971 (USA)
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James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and ends.

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Smartorhypo

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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GazerRise

Fantastic!

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Catangro

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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Michelle Ridley

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

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Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)

"This Is It" is a 9-minute live action short film from 1970, so this one is already over 45 years old. The director is James Broughton and he was in his 50s already when he shot this little film. I see that the kid we see from start to finish is Orion Broughton, so it's probably his grandson (maybe even his son still). The film takes us on a journey with the little boy and we see the world through his eyes while we hear very basic comments on the particular situation. I think it was okay for an experimental film and I have seen many worse from the genre, but I still believe that the film is really too personal to be interesting to general audiences. It is a solid addition to a family history collection, but as a film I cannot really see the appeal. That's why I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

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