The Event
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Frank Mosley, Hugo De Sousa
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, tense
It's 2 AM and Vince just needs to know why his best friend hasn't watched his short film yet. The answer arrives via an elaborate, accusatory pasta metaphor.
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A film about the worst question one filmmaker can ask another, staged in the dark with a pasta metaphor — every choice here is the right one. I'm in before the first line.
Staging an entire dark comedy in near-total darkness, trusting voice and micro-expression to carry, is a real formal proposition — Bergman with the lights off is bold shorthand. Curious.
Staging an entire dark comedy in near-total darkness, trusting voice and micro-expression to carry every bite of an elaborate pasta-metaphor accusation — that's a real formal dare and Mosley/De Sousa are serious craftspeople. Friendship-corrosion done lean.
Reviews
A painfully awkward dark comedy, incisively written and perfectly performed; it exists in almost complete darkness and yet it's so vividly drawn that you can feel every micro expression.