Holy Cannoli!
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia, Roman Koval
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
An L.A. spiritual dilettante spends a workday trying to load his coworker with self-improvement gospel. The 'enlightenment' on offer is aggressive, self-serving, and very Los Angeles.
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Finally, a film that understands the L.A. seeker is a villain. The 'off-the-cuff' delivery is doing real character work — these guys aren't acting at enlightenment, they're acting at acting at it.
Treats spiritual proselytizing as workplace harassment — wellness culture as the new door-to-door evangelism is a sharp framing, Alex-Ross-Perry-in-Silver-Lake-on-adaptogens.
Treats spiritual proselytizing as a workplace harassment scenario — wellness culture as the new door-to-door evangelism with the thousand-yard hipster stare. Two-hander LA-misanthropy character study is exactly the right register.