A Man's World
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Jens Josephs
Tones: absurdist, humorous, tense
A western novelist marches over to complain about the neighbors' noise and gets sucked into their Instagram cat photo session, which devolves into pure social chaos. Rabbit hole, but for boomer dignity.
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Imagine the noise-complaint guy is the joke and the cat shoot is the answer. Josephs edits like he's daring you to keep up, which is the only way to do this kind of comedy.
Jens Josephs lets a noise-complaint plot pivot into an Instagram cat shoot, paced like screwball with VFX flourishes — early Dupieux meets Conner O'Malley. Loopy and a little exhausting.
Noise-complaint plot pivoting into an Instagram cat shoot, paced like screwball with VFX flourishes — Jens Josephs's rabbit-hole structure has good comic geometry but boomer-dignity-as-target is well-trod.
Reviews
A loopy, rapid-fire comedy wherein a man enters a rabbit hole and struggles to find his way out — kinetic pace with sometimes indecipherably quick dialogue, intentionally disorientating editing, and constantly shifting character dynamics.