Girl Blunt
2023 · 11m · USA
Directed by Clementine Narcisse
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, provocative
Two Black femme weed dealers lace their supply to take revenge on a conniving man, in a brash Y2K-styled stoner comedy.
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Finally—a revenge plot that doesn't genuflect to moral clarity, where two Black femmes weaponize intimacy and intoxication against a deserving mark without asking permission from the audience to find it funny. Narcisse makes the provocation *work*, which is rarer than it should be.
The Y2K pastiche risks feeling like costume, but Narcisse's control of tone and pacing—the way comedy and menace genuinely coexist rather than trade places—suggests a filmmaker thinking formally about how genre expectation can be subverted from within.
What makes this land is the casting decision to let these performers play it *straight* even as the premise tilts toward absurdity; that deadpan commitment to the scheme, held across eleven minutes with no winking, transforms what could've been a one-joke bit into something with real weight.