SALLY
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Owen Ellis
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A woman literally dies of boredom after eight years with the wrong guy. Her partner tries to resurrect her through animation, skeleton puppetry, and dismembered limbs — and still manages to misread the assignment.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Boredom-as-cause-of-death is a thesis I'll back any day. Bonus points for solving the problem with skeleton puppets instead of therapy.
Hybrid live-action / animation / skeleton puppetry on a relationship-decomposition premise — that's the homemade Kaufman / Gondry craft pact I always want to honor.
Hybrid live-action/animation/skeleton-puppetry literalizing relationship decomposition — that's a Gondry-grade craft swing I want to see commit. The man being oblivious even with an animated Sally is the right joke.
Reviews
Comedy comes first in this account of a 'dying' relationship