Review: Provocative and passionate
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2013
Annabelle is the child of an artistic married couple who have an intense and satisfying working relationship.  Annabelle's father is a painter, his wife his muse.  Every portrait he produces, despite their varied themes, has his wife incorporated into the painting.  She tirelessly and willingly poses for her husband, each of them feeding off one another's burning energy and sexual tension.  Their passion for each other is quite evident to their only child, daughter Annabelle.  Her father is focused and obsessive as he translates his wife's beauty to canvas with each loving brushstroke. Annabelle fervently wishes that she could pose for her father, and longs to become the vessel of his passionate creativity. When Annabelle asks "When?" her mother tells her she's too young, not yet ready.  She assures Annabelle that one day she will be fiercely loved and adored, as she is by her husband.  As her mother strokes Annabelle's golden locks so like her own, she sees a promise of beauty in her daughter.A grown up and mentally fragile Annabelle recounts all this to her psychiatrist, Jules.  Annabelle's family secrets deliciously unfold, building to an erotic and tragic climax.  This "short" was an elegantly written emotional tour-de-force that was quite a satisfying read.