Break Up, Baby
2021 · 12m · USA
Directed by Alec Cohen
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: humorous, melancholic, whimsical
A woman gets dumped in a world where everyone else is conspicuously, gallingly in love. She wanders a park while animated overlays scribble her interior weather onto the live action.
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The scouts
Hand-drawn animation graffitied onto a breakup walk-and-talk. That's a formal choice with teeth, not just decoration.
Animated overlays scribbled onto live action — Cohen turns a park stroll into a moving diary in the Hertzfeldt-meets-Frances-Ha key. Khan's writing is the spine.
Animated overlays scribbled onto live action turning a park stroll into a moving diary — that's a real formal language for interior weather. Fareeha Khan writing and starring suggests the voice is unified.