jeijay
2021 · 8m · Germany
Directed by Petra Stipetić, Maren Wiese
Genres: drama, romance, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A couple tries to repress the slow, inevitable decay of their relationship, their crumbling love life captured in everyday moments braided with dreamlike sequences.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The surrealism-as-relationship-metaphor thing is safe enough that even couples therapy could greenlight it; I'd rather watch them actually *break* something instead of dream-float through the rubble.
Stipetić and Wiese construct a formally intelligent architecture where the braiding of quotidian detail and dreamlogic becomes the *form* of emotional erosion itself—the edit is doing the feeling work.
The decision to let the everyday moments breathe without scoring them, trusting the surreal sequences to carry the emotional weight instead, is what makes the restraint actually land.