Dime
2020 · 14m
Directed by Jessica Garrison
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
Etta returns from Vegas with a pile of cash and has to explain to her boyfriend where it came from — a chamber drama that circles trust, jealousy, sex, and power with escalating precision.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
She came back from Vegas with money. He wants to know how. What follows is a 14-minute controlled detonation of a relationship. Garrison is in total control.
A two-character chamber drama where audience sympathies are systematically destabilized — Garrison choreographing trust, jealousy, and power across a single Vegas-money confession is exactly the kind of compressed actor showcase the form rewards.
Two-character standoff that titrates information in escalating, choreographed beats — Dasher and Krantz selling the destabilizing power-shift in real time. Chamber dramas live or die on this kind of precision and the page is confident about it.
Reviews
It's transfixing stuff - titillating, darkly funny, incisive about the insecurities and triggers of men and women.