You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll wait for an unbearably long time.

An ex-roommate of mine from my undergraduate days is a big movie buff. I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who has a greater love of outstanding cinema than he does, and I'm not sure I ever will. Periodically, he trolls the web looking for interesting short films (and occasional feature length movies) to download and burn onto discs.

Yesterday he sent me a link to a short film that I found to be absolutely incredible. It's one of the best short films I've ever seen. Entitled "Grimm," the story is narrated as a children's fairy tale with excellent and moving original music and a narrator whose voice is so luxuriently smooth that it is a reason to watch the film on its own.

It took an obscenely long time to queue up on my computer (why buffering a movie clip took so long is beyond me, but it did). So if you have about 15 minutes to spare sometime, open the movie and then go have lunch. When you get back, you'll be in for a cinematographic masterpiece.

EDIT (11:40, 02/09/06): I've just watched it again for the third (fourth?) time. God, that voice is enchanting.