F*ck Bunny
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Wesley Wingo
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: melancholic, sensual, tense
A woman in a bunny costume meets a man in a dog costume at a motel for anonymous role-play, and the unease underneath the act keeps leaking through. Intimacy as a costume that doesn't quite fit.
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The scouts
Furry-motel premise should be a Reddit thread; instead it's a Lanthimos-grade short about hiding inside intimacy. Anderson does the entire performance through the head of a costume and still levels you.
Wingo plays full-body animal costumes for the entire central encounter without making them the punchline — Lanthimos / Bertrand Mandico body-suit lineage with early Ramsay's interior weight. The refusal-of-gag is the formal achievement.
Full-body animal costumes worn for the entire central motel encounter, never played as a punchline — that's the difficult choice and Francesca Anderson carrying it through the suit with pleading eyes is the load-bearing performance. Bertrand Mandico body-suit territory done at NoBudge scale.
Reviews
Playing the bunny, Francesca Anderson carries the film with raw vulnerability and pleading eyes.