Terry Gilliam Wants You To Eat More Pasta

Though Terry Gilliam seems entirely unable to get a new feature project off the ground the director has, at least, managed to keep himself busy. He directed a live Arcade Fire show a little while back. He's directing an opera in London right now. And he's been dabbling in commercial work of a sort, shooting two different corporate-sponsored short films in recent days.

The newest of those is The Wholly Family, a piece funded by an Italian pasta company. The trailer for this arrived online recently and, frankly, I find it rather depressing to see Gilliam mailing it in like this. The images are clearly his - obvious because we've seen variations of them before - and something just feels wrong about seeing a man once so subversive in his work stringing together shots of a kid made happy by noodles in exchange for a paycheck. the opera is apparently quite good, at least.