Such Good Friends
2025 · 11m · USA
Directed by Bri Klaproth
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, melancholic
After resolving to cut off a toxic friendship, a chronic people-pleaser finds herself immediately ensnared by old patterns when she becomes entangled with her former best friend's grieving family.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Klaproth understands that social anxiety is its own genre — here she deploys it with the precision of a tragicomic short story writer who knows exactly when to press.
Fleabag-with-a-funeral, complete with Mindy Sterling cameo for the indie comedy bingo card. Eleven minutes, so it can't overstay; I'll grant it that mercy and a shrug.
Mindy Sterling in the cast is a real signal — Klaproth threading grief into a comedy of manners where the etiquette of mourning becomes the pressure cooker. Eleven minutes of Fleabag-coded social specificity.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2025