Bar Snakes
11m · USA
Directed by Alex Warren
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Two tipsy strangers extend a flirtation past last call. She keeps asking why he's even with her — until one wrong sentence collapses the spell.
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The scouts
Drunk bar-flirt dialogue is a high-degree-of-difficulty genre and most of it lies. This one sounds like it doesn't.
Mumblecore that learned how to land a punchline — Warren writes drunk-flirtation rhythm well enough that the wrong-sentence collapse hits. Early Swanberg with a better editor, deserved comp.
An eleven-minute talky single-encounter piece living entirely in the rhythm of two-people-getting-drunk dialogue — one wrong sentence collapses the spell. That's a dialogue-mechanics bet on the writing and the two actors.
Reviews
Perfectly captures the flirtatious maneuverings of two tipsy souls