Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended.
Phuzzy4242 wrote:The little "girl" is actually Calvin Waters.
'pears there's a reason for that:
Damaged by men and society, Miss Gentilbelle can not bear to raise a son. Instead, she rears her child to be her little girl. But when her little girl starts to ask questions, there are deadly consequences...
Better understood if you know the story. That's part of the 'horror'. ("Girls will be boys and boys will be girls...")['Lola', Ray Davies]
Pre-dating 'Sleepaway Camp' by years..
(Also remade as another short in 2000:
'Miss Gentilbelle' [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466898/ ]
Starring another boy, Beau Rutherford as Roberta/Bobby.)
Synopsis:
A strange short black and white film, about an embittered woman, Miss Gentilbelle, who is bringing up her son, Bobby, as a girl, Roberta. The boy doesn't know that he is a boy, but the ex-husband who was the origin of the mother's hatred of men, is in the background and will try to rescue the boy.
The mother uses the expedient of slaughtering the boy's pet animals to punish him. The boy is played by Beau Rutherford, in his only film role. The film portrays the story of a book by Charles Beaumont, which is said to be autobiographical.
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