Let The Lion Out
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Alex Bliss
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A man in deep denial about his breakup keeps deflecting with a mantra until his girlfriend snaps and demands he 'let the lion out.' Masculine fragility, made literal.
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Matt Barats plus Eleanore Pienta is a downtown-comedy pairing I will follow into traffic. Bonus: it actually commits to the dumb metaphor instead of just sketching it.
A breakup sketch that takes its central caged-lion metaphor and physically uncages it — Barats and Pienta are a real pairing, but the bit is a bit.
A breakup sketch taking its central metaphor — the caged inner lion — and physically uncaging it. Matt Barats + Eleanore Pienta is exactly the right pairing for masculine-fragility-made-literal.