Egg
2022 · 13m · USA
Directed by Stephanie Ibarra
Genres: comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, tender, whimsical
A woman lays an egg mid-conversation with her roommate, and the two of them must navigate what this means for their friendship, their living situation, and their understanding of biology. Absurdist premise, naturalistic execution.
Picked by Felix
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The premise IS the film, and somehow it's not a one-joke exercise — the naturalism makes the egg feel completely inevitable, which is its own kind of disturbing.
Yorgos remade by someone who likes people — Ibarra's deadpan domestic execution of a literal egg-laying premise is the right way to do absurdism in 13 minutes, treating the impossible with the casualness of a coffee spill.
The naturalistic register applied to a woman literally laying an egg is the whole craft choice — small-scale, lighthearted, absurd domestic. That tonal calibration is hard to fake.