Bergmensch
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Jordan Tetewsky, Joshua Pikovsky
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A young man attends an unusual sabbath dinner with his parents, where the familiar rituals of family begin to bend in quietly uncanny directions.
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Finally — a sabbath dinner that isn't trying to teach you anything. The Tetewsky/Pikovsky pair specialize in quiet weirdness, and that's worth ten more redemption arcs.
Tetewsky and Pikovsky stage a sabbath dinner as a creeping deadpan ritual — Lanthimos's chill applied to a family rite. Short, opaque, well-formed.
A sabbath dinner staged as creeping deadpan ritual is a strong directorial choice from Tetewsky and Pikovsky, though the page summary is thin and the premise depends entirely on tonal control.