Glass Half
2015 · 3m · Holanda
Directed by Beorn Leonard
Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about piece after piece, causing chaos for the other visitors. The pair finally finds one artwork that earns agreement from both critics.
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A two-hander about art criticism that treats disagreement itself as the real artwork—watching these two ransack a gallery with competing hot takes is genuinely anarchic, the kind of premise that shouldn't work but somehow does because it refuses to pick a side or offer easy resolution.
Leonard channels a lineage of gallery satires and comedies of manners while maintaining formal control over the escalation; the film understands how to pace disagreement as a performative act, each beat calibrated to build without losing the underlying critique of aesthetic posturing.
The decision to make both critics equally insufferable and equally right—never letting us side with one over the other—is the whole film, and it transforms what could've been a sketch into something that actually comments on how we perform taste rather than experience it.