Outer Space Love Story
2021 · 15m · USA
Directed by Iva Gocheva
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, romance
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
After crossing an unspoken boundary, three women — a married couple and an unwitting mistress — confront each other with stage rain, prop space capsules, and fourth-wall breaks. Meta deconstruction meets relationship rom-com.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three women, one affair, prop space capsules, and stage rain — the title is doing a LOT of heavy lifting and the film earns every bit of it. Wait, WHAT just happened to the fourth wall?
Iva Gocheva's avant-garde theatrical staging signals a Cassavetes-after-Lynch register — three-handed confrontation pieces are easy to imagine and hard to land.
Stage rain, prop space capsules, fourth-wall breaks all deployed for a married-couple-and-mistress confrontation that somehow keeps its emotional content — the conceit-survives-the-conceit alchemy is the hardest version of this to pull off.
Reviews
uses an avant-garde theater set-up -- complete with stage rain, prop space capsules, and 4th wall breaks.