The Crossing Over Express
2024 · 11m · USA
Directed by Luke Barnett, Tanner Thomason
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, tender
A grieving man seeks a final two-minute conversation with his deceased mother through a mysterious mobile practitioner who operates out of a truck. The encounter navigates the weight of loss with unexpected humor and haunting tenderness.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A film born from personal grief and shaped into precise formal conceit — the supernatural made mundane, the mundane made unbearable — which is exactly the alchemy I find most worth preserving.
Roadside truck service for talking to the dead — deadpan supernatural grief delivered straight. A Ghost Story comparison sets a high bar; the conceit could either work beautifully or curdle.
Deadpan supernatural premise — a roadside truck where you talk to your dead mother — played with full sincerity. Dot-Marie Jones gives it real emotional weight; eleven minutes that knows when to undercut and when not to.
Reviews
There is a point in adulthood where you cannot help but to become familiar with loss and the feeling of giving anything for one more phone call, or hug, or just to see the face of someone you loved so much.