Squeegee
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Morgan Krantz
Tones: absurdist, humorous, sensual
Nine floors up, a high-powered executive abandons her work to flirt through plate glass with the guy soaping her window. What follows is a wordless duet of suggestive gestures conducted at the world's most inconvenient distance.
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The scouts
A romcom where the meet-cute is literally a pane of glass — finally, a love story that admits the barrier is the point. I want this in the vault before someone makes it a feature and ruins it.
An entire wordless seduction conducted through a sealed skyscraper window with squeegee strokes as foreplay is a beautifully specific formal premise — silent-film flirtation meets Soderbergh corporate ennui done at exactly the right scale. Krantz nails it.
Entire seduction conducted through a sealed skyscraper window with squeegee strokes as foreplay is a wordless physical-comedy bet — casting a real-life window-washer (Blair McKenzie) is the kind of authenticity move that makes the absurd-sensual balance work.
Reviews
Nails a tricky tonal balance on the edge of absurd and sensual, and gets fully committed performances.