Adam Pinney's The Arbalest is a 76-minute sort-of period piece about a man who sort of took credit for inventing a toy that's sort of like a Rubik's Cube (except he puts his own last name on it instead, deeming it the Kalt Cube). He goes on to become sort of famous, and then sort of maintains a long-distance romance with the real Cube inventor's partner (who only sort of ever wanted him). The movie is sort of based on some real events but also generally just does what it wants when it comes to toying with reality, such as sort of changing human history so that guns were never invented.
Following the premiere, a few audience members and I struggled to define the film in definite terms. There were a lot of "sort ofs" in our descriptions. We all agreed that we enjoyed it and that we were glad we saw it at SXSW, which felt like an appropriate festival home for the formally experimental, heavily production-designed film. The Arbalest feels like it is exactly what it wants to be, that it is uncompromising in its vision, and that Pinney achieved what he wanted.
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