Alien in Love
2024 · 4m
Directed by Corinne James
Genres: animation, comedy, satire
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, provocative
A young cinephile rates a film on Letterboxd while his girlfriend pleads for attention — a colorful animated satire on the way film culture cannibalizes real human connection.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Letterboxd is literally cast as the alien destroying this relationship and I cannot argue with the analysis.
Three-and-a-half-minute animated satire arguing Letterboxd is more dehumanizing than alien contact — guilty as charged, and the brevity is mercy. The conceit is single-note but the note is well-tuned.
Under four minutes of animated Letterboxd-bro satire where the demonic alien is more attentive than the boyfriend reviewing 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Before.' That title alone earns a laugh — brevity sells the bit.