Maya Forever
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Benjamin Gordon
Genres: comedy, drama, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, whimsical
Boston twentysomethings tangle through romance and ambient weirdness when musicians Maya and Connor meet on a train. While Connor pursues, his roommate accidentally summons a ghost — and the film never quite commits to one storyline.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A ghost shows up, nobody panics, the New Wave jump-cuts keep landing. This is what loose looks like when loose actually works.
Black-and-white New Wave styling crashed into a mumblecore haunting — Gordon's tonal restlessness is either the asset or the bug, hard to say from outside. The Band of Outsiders / Mutual Appreciation mashup is the right energy.
Black-and-white French New Wave gestures jammed into a mumblecore haunting where Connor's roommate accidentally summons a ghost while reviving a dead cat — that's a wonderfully un-disciplined tonal pile-up. The jump-cut energy and refusal to commit to one storyline is the formal pleasure here.
Reviews
A lo-fi jolt of cinematic playfulness that blends jazzy, black-and-white French New Wave meets mumblecore oddity.