Happy Valentine’s Day
2018 · 6m · Estados Unidos , Francia
Directed by The Neymarc Brothers
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Love, death and destiny frame the end of one relationship as the trigger for new love between two strangers. Slow motion and a reversed single shot carry the turn.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Love-and-loss as a hinge for new romance is basically the oldest move in the book, and slowing it down doesn't make it subversive—it just makes it prettier, which isn't my speed.
The reversed single shot is a formally audacious choice that reframes temporal and emotional linearity—this is the kind of restrained, conceptually precise work that situates itself in the lineage of experimental romance cinema, asking something genuine about how we move through grief into connection.
That reversed shot does everything: it's economical, it solves a narrative problem with a single camera decision, and it gives two actors a spatial language that no amount of additional coverage could've bought them—this is the kind of constraint that makes a small film feel inevitable.