Home Entertainment
2018 · 20m
Directed by Sonia Gumuchian, Katherine Eaton
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
An anthology of three parts packaging pet peeves, secret desires and subversions into escalating disbelief and hilarity.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
An anthology that weaponizes the mundane—pet peeves become portals to absurdist nightmare—and doesn't blink at escalating into full disbelief; this is exactly the kind of subversive, formally playful provocation that makes consensus critics squirm and proves the format still has teeth.
The triptych structure grounds what could be formless provocation into a considered architecture, each segment building on the last with the precision of someone who understands how anthology form inherits from tradition while dismantling it.
The singular choice here is the escalation itself—the decision to let each segment's absurdity compound rather than reset—and how efficiently Gumuchian and Eaton make that escalation *feel* inevitable on a modest budget.
Reviews
What directors Sonia Gumuchian and Katherine Eaton's Home Entertainment does is neatly package people's pet peeves, secret desires and subversions into an anthology of three parts, with each raising the bar in disbelief and hilarity. For a film that is only 19:52 minutes, Home Entertainment packs in a lot.