Jebivetar
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kathleen Winter
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A young woman discloses an unusual desire to her partner during couples therapy, and he agrees to help her fulfill it. The film takes a meta turn that delivers, very literally, on its title.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Most couples-therapy films are unbearably tasteful — this one lands the punchline by literally enacting the title. That's the kind of meta filthiness I want in the vault.
Winter pulls a meta structural reveal that physically fulfills the title's promise — Dupieux transgressive playfulness with Joanna Arnow deadpan therapy comedy. Earned audacity, the right way.
A therapy-room couples comedy that breaks the frame near the end and literally delivers on the title's promise — meta structural payoff in a film about fucking the wind is a hard tonal needle to thread. Winter wearing all the hats (director/DoP/editor) suggests it's tightly controlled.
Reviews
Endearingly awkward and meta, Winter's film takes an unexpected turn near the end that breaks it open and fulfills the titular promise.