Dinnertime
2019 · 25m
Directed by Gerardo Coello Escalante
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
An absurdist melodrama in three acts charting a family's dysfunction through altercations, deaths, and the growing influence of a singing realtor.
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Three acts. Multiple deaths. One singing realtor who keeps gaining power. This shouldn't work and it absolutely does.
A 25-minute three-act absurdist melodrama whose central engine is an increasingly influential singing realtor — Escalante's pacing being remarkably calibrated is the only review that matters at that length, and Lanthimos comparisons aren't lightly given.
25 minutes of absurdist family melodrama in three acts driven by the escalating influence of a singing realtor — the page promises 'remarkably calibrated' pacing, which is the only way this kind of premise survives that runtime.