The Odd
2020 · 2m
Directed by Roberto Vivancos
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
A two-minute glimpse into a woman's acutely personal experience in the bath, carried by inner monologue and a drenched-green color scheme.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a woman in bathwater shouldn't work as subversion, but Vivancos bets everything on the inner monologue doing the heavy lifting—and it mostly doesn't, which is almost interesting in how it refuses to resolve.
A formally restrained meditation on interiority that sits comfortably within experimental cinema's long tradition of the body as canvas, though the drenched-green palette occasionally overwhelms the psychological precision underneath.
The decision to let the monologue drift without commentary while the camera stays fixed on that green-filtered water—never cutting, never flinching—transforms what could be maudlin into something genuinely unsettling.
Reviews
Short as it is, the film leaves an impact, first, due to the woman's inner monologue, and the film's colour scheme. Drenched in green, the opening shot is stunning and hooks in the viewer immediately.