635PM PST
2018 · 6m · USA
Directed by James Morosini
Two highly sensitive caterers, Peter and JD, struggle through a fancy event where Peter's ex-girlfriend is being celebrated. When strange creatures attack, some priorities shift — and some stay petty.
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Finally, someone who gets it — an alien invasion movie that couldn't care less about saving the world because there's a prettier crisis happening in the walk-in. Morosini's refusing to let spectacle interrupt pettiness, and the result is subversive enough to make every other first-contact film look like a greeting card.
The editing rhythm here is surgical, cutting between kitchen drama and cosmic horror with the precision of someone who's watched their Ealing comedies and their Truffaut equally; it's a film that knows exactly what lineage it's both honoring and upending.
The choice to stage the apocalypse entirely through kitchen windows and prep-station sightlines — never showing the invasion directly, only its reflection in two people's refusal to stop caring about their emotional wounds — is the kind of constraint that becomes pure invention.
Reviews
The story is quite original; the acting is pretty good.
A sci-fi dramedy anthology that explores how lives are changed at the moment we make contact with the ultimate unknown — extraterrestrials.