Jeanette Is The Dog
2022 · 10m · Australia
Directed by Pat Mooney
Tones: contemplative, humorous, melancholic
Two friends drift through a rooftop lunch with a colleague, the conversation orbiting home ownership, money, and the small humiliations of adulthood. What spills out between the lines does more work than anything anyone says out loud.
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Conversations where nobody actually says the thing — my favorite genre. Mooney trusts that real estate anxiety is funnier than any punchline he could write, and he's right.
An entire short structured around the gap between what's said at lunch and what's actually being negotiated — Joanna Hogg's talky observation in miniature is a delicate trick.
An entire short structured around the gap between what's said at lunch and what's actually being negotiated — wealth imbalance through making-up-names-for-trees. Shot on film with Australian deadpan is the right execution.
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A breezy, idiosyncratic glimpse at what goes on inside our heads, and what comes to the surface amongst friends.