I Love You So Hard
2013 · 4m · United Kingdom
Directed by Ross Butter
Genres: animation, comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Joel is hopelessly in love with Jacqui, and to win her heart he lists ever more extreme and disgusting proofs of devotion, from organ donations to bladders full of honey. His shrieking, grotesque serenade turns courtship into a deranged animated comedy.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A four-minute descent into romantic horror that treats devotion as a grotesque escalation game—bladders full of honey, organ harvesting, pure derangement in service of courtship. This is exactly the kind of premise that makes people uncomfortable because it actually works, and that's why everyone else will sleep on it.
Butter's command of grotesque visual gag-craft recalls a particular lineage of body-horror comedy animation, though the film's structural reliance on shock accumulation over formal restraint keeps it from the precision that would elevate it into something genuinely canonical.
The shrieking vocal performance is the film's secret weapon—that commitment to vocal grotesqueness over polished animation is what makes the low-fi aesthetic feel intentional rather than budgetary, and it's the single choice that sells the whole deranged premise.
Reviews
cette petite histoire d'amour a décrispé les sourires de nombreux spectateurs du festival. Délicieusement irrévérencieux, ce court métrage n'est rien d'autre qu'une comédie, simple, peut-être presque simpliste.