Lucy in the Morning
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Isaac Cole
Tones: melancholic, tender
A man brings an online date back to his Brooklyn apartment for a thoroughly un-romantic evening, and the morning after takes the encounter somewhere neither of them planned. A quiet study in the gap between dating-app choreography and actual human contact.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A hookup short that resists the joke and resists the swoon — sits in the in-between where most filmmakers don't have the patience to stay.
A modern-dating short that neither laughs at nor rescues its characters is a hard tonal trick, and that refusal-to-rescue is the formal gesture I respect most.
A modern-dating short that doesn't laugh at its characters and doesn't rescue them either — just sits with the unromance. That refusal of the easy bail is the whole pitch.