At Work
11m · USA
Directed by Hubert Adjei-Kontoh
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A neurotic barista chases the gallery girl who slept with him once — not realizing she's running a project where she dates a new man every night. A curator gets the wrong idea, and suddenly her career moves.
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The scouts
A romcom premise sabotaged by the fact that one party is treating the whole thing as art practice. The lopsidedness is the whole point.
A conceptual-art dating experiment the smitten guy can't recognize — Adjei-Kontoh writes-directs-stars a scuzzier Frances Ha where everyone's hustle is also their personality. Lived-in, slightly underbaked.
A neurotic barista chasing a gallery girl who's running a conceptual-art dating experiment he's too dumb to recognize — the misread IS the engine and the punchline. Adjei-Kontoh writing/directing/starring keeps the voice unified.
Reviews
A loose, endearingly strange watch, carried by its performers