My Baby
2013 · 19m · Romania
Directed by Luiza Pârvu
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Three strangers’ lives intersect through decisions that force each to care for and need the others.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise sounds like every indie ensemble drama ever made—strangers, interdependence, tender moments—which is exactly why I'd probably skip it unless Pârvu does something genuinely weird with the form, and I suspect she doesn't.
A formally restrained study in how constraint breeds connection; the kind of film that trusts editing and silence to do the emotional work, which places it squarely in a lineage of careful European chamber pieces.
Pârvu stretches 19 minutes across three separate lives with the kind of economy that only works if one specific formal choice—likely how she stitches their timelines or uses negative space—makes the interdependence feel inevitable rather than imposed.