Him & Her (a typical Friday night)
2026 · 2m
Directed by Fillie
Tones: sensual, tender, whimsical
After a small evening at the bar, an artist couple settles into their typical Friday night at home: a pasta dinner, dancing, reading and more, in a glamorous 1940s-50s-inflected celebration of staying in.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a soft-focus love letter when we're all drowning in irony—which almost makes it interesting, except the film knows exactly how charming it is, and that self-awareness kills the subversion before it lands.
Fillie understands the grammar of mid-century visual romance so thoroughly that every frame sits in conversation with Sirk and Donen; the restraint to let a pasta dinner and a dance be enough, formally and emotionally, is where the real rigor lives.
The decision to hold on the couple's faces during the dancing—letting the performance breathe rather than cut—is what transforms this from a mood board into a film; that single commitment to presence over montage changes everything.