I'm Gonna Get Married
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Wendy McColm
Tones: humorous, theatrical, whimsical
Elisa puts on vintage wedding dresses and sings the wedding-bell loop in her own head into a pop musical. Love, marriage, and a heap of pop-culture references, DIY style.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Marriage-obsession-as-musical is the kind of premise that usually plays as cringe, but the stylized DIY framing is the joke and the rescue at once. McColm trusts the bit; the bit pays.
A one-woman pop musical staged in vintage wedding dresses — Miranda July's earliest 'me-and-a-wig' shorts mode with the Schmigadoon impulse on craft-store budget. Slight but committed.
A one-woman musical staged in a sequence of vintage wedding dresses where the costume is the set is the score is the joke — the marrying-Jim-Carrey and ghosted-by-Where's-Waldo songs are the right specificity. DIY pop-musical commitment.