Five Minutes Before the End of The World
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kevin Luna
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
Set in a near future possibly experiencing apocalypse, young people gather at a trendy Swedish coffee shop, remaining detached despite ominous sirens and jets overhead. The film satirizes modern indifference through hipsters on yoga mats discussing films and celebrity chefs while ignoring dire surroundings.
Picked by Felix
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The apocalypse arrives and the hipsters keep ordering oat milk. That's not just satire, that's a documentary of the present in slight disguise.
Apocalypse staged at a Swedish coffee shop — Luna's hipster-detachment satire reads sharper in concept than execution, and the AR-glasses gag tilts into easy target. Pleasant enough, not essential.
Apocalypse staged at a Swedish coffee shop with AR glasses and zero urgency, sirens and jets ignored — the satire's target is exact and the laissez-faire register is the joke. Either deadly precise or too pleased with itself.