Loveseat
2020 · 12m · USA
Directed by Grace Kim
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Tones: absurdist, tender, whimsical
A lonely man takes a fateful encounter with a banana as a sign and goes hunting for his soulmate. The set is full of hundreds of bananas and the film treats his delusion with disarming sincerity.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Man falls in love because of a banana. Now imagine that played completely straight by a production designer who means it.
A man seeking his soul mate after a fateful banana encounter — Grace Kim is in Charlie Kaufman / Quentin Dupieux territory, and the crossword-puzzle detail is exactly the kind of specific that suggests real craft.
Production design built around literal hundreds of bananas as romantic talisman, treated with disarming sincerity — Amelie-lineage delusion-as-hope is a hard register and the banana commitment is genuinely odd in a good way.