How to Fire Someone (with Jules and Jonas)
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Mike Lars White
Jonas asks his sister Jules for advice on canning an employee, and the two improvise their way through escalating termination role-plays from the front seat of a car. She wants ruthless efficiency, he wants dignity, neither gets quite what they're after.
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Two people in a car rehearsing how to ruin someone's week — this is what cinema looks like when no one can afford a second location. Bless the improvisers who realized that's the whole movie.
A whole short executed in a parked car on two performers riffing — Locke meets mumblecore-podcast-as-film. The single-location improv gambit is either riveting or weightless; depends entirely on Lim and Wong.
One-take, fully improvised, shot entirely in a parked car between two performers role-playing escalating terminations — that's a hard formal limit and Lim/Wong have to carry every second. Simple set-up, no place to hide.
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Shot entirely in a car, carried by the improvisational talents of its two leads.