Recreational Social Interaction
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Alex Sovoda
Genres: dark comedy, drama, thriller
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
A first date with real chemistry — until both parties start working overtime to hide something. She turns down the invite home, then goes home herself and starts a ritual that recasts the whole evening.
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Plays like a meet-cute until it isn't. The pivot is so unhurried you start suspecting yourself before you suspect her.
First-date-as-Patricia-Highsmith setup — the perspective shift is the formal gesture, and Alex Sovoda apparently trusts it. That's promising.
The cute-date rhythms hold all the way through dessert before the camera quietly hands the film to the wrong person — that perspective-shift architecture is a real craft move and 'death or sex' as foreshadowing is a great tell.
Reviews
Builds tension and shifts perspective while balancing comedy and drama with thriller/horror flavoring.