This Could Be Heaven
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Hope Green
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Inside the beige limbo of break rooms, waiting areas, and parking-lot Americana, strangers brush against each other in small uncanny exchanges. Green treats infrastructure like a haunted house and the haunting is loneliness.
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Set in the rooms designed to be endured, not lived in. Green finds something close to grace in the fluorescent buzz, which is more honest than most heaven movies.
Hope Green treats infrastructure like a haunted house — break rooms, parking lots, dollar stores — and the haunting is loneliness. Reichardt's geography, Roy Andersson's tableaux, miniaturized. Lovely.
Magical-realist anthology set entirely in the unloved interiors of working-class American space — Hope Green treating infrastructure like a haunted house is a precise vision and break rooms are an underused canvas.
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Tenderly considers the relationship between people and their places - Americana and its infrastructure and workplaces, and the ways we look for home and connection.