How I Lost My Appetite
8m · USA
Directed by Robert B. Matuluko
Genres: drama, experimental, horror
A couple lies in bed reading; she pulls back when he reaches for her, smokes on the balcony, then ends up at a bar making eyes at a stranger. The film unspools without dialogue toward something darker than infidelity.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Dialogue-free horror that smuggles itself in as a relationship drama — that's a structural trick I respect. Mitchell holding the entire film on her face alone is the kind of bet most directors won't make.
Zero dialogue, entire emotional architecture on glances and body language, then weaponized for a horror turn the silence has been disguising — Glazer-Strasbourg-1518 lineage is real ambition.
Zero dialogue — the entire emotional architecture rests on glances and body language, then weaponized for a horror turn the silence has been disguising. That genre-hide is a real structural commitment.