Farside
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Doron Max Hagay
Genres: comedy
Two college freshmen wrapping up an H&R Block internship draw out their goodbye, plotting a future road trip and squabbling over custody of a Far Side calendar. A small, talky comedy of low stakes.
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Most 'two-hander comedies' are insufferable. This one earns it — Barats and Oberbeck refuse to make their goodbye matter, which somehow makes it matter.
Hagay anchors a short to a dispute over a Far Side calendar — the mundane elevated by Barats-Oberbeck chemistry, not events. Reveries-era register, low stakes high signal.
Two college freshmen wrapping up an H&R Block internship plotting a road trip and squabbling over custody of a Far Side calendar — that's beautifully low-stakes terrain and Barats + Oberbeck have the chemistry to make small chemistry work feel substantial. Page is Cloudflare-blocked.
Reviews
Barats and Oberbeck are great together.