Savasana
2016 · 10m · USA
Directed by Brandon Daley
Genres: comedy
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, surreal
A checked-out dad hides from his family at yoga class, ostensibly to find inner peace and actually to scope women. The pose runs out when his wife finds weed in their kid's bedroom and he has to actually parent.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Sarah Sherman before she was Sarah Sherman, paired with Paul Gordon's monotone — that's enough. Throw in deadbeat-dad yoga and we have a movie.
Paul Gordon's flatline monotone over a juvenile yoga-class-leering premise transformed by serious atmosphere and sound design — the formal mismatch is the trick.
Drew Angle's atmosphere and the sound-design ambition over a juvenile premise is the exact mismatch I love — Paul Gordon's monotone is doing heavy lifting. Worried about the leering setup tipping into actual sleaze, though.
Reviews
Comic edge and dreamy haziness
Festivals
- NoBudge Awards 2016, Best Comedy