Warmish
2017 · 50m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Braxie Jacobson
Genres: drama, LGBTQ+, romance
Tones: contemplative, tender
Parker and Ellie meet again after a problematic past relationship and try to start over as friends. Parker's boyfriend makes the situation harder, and many things demand clarification.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A 50-minute LGBTQ+ reconciliation drama sounds like every festival circuit safe bet, but Jacobson's refusal to give us easy catharsis or a clean resolution is genuinely irritating in the best way—the film trusts ambiguity more than most indie work dares.
Jacobson demonstrates formal restraint in the tradition of Chloé Zhao's observational patience, building tension through what isn't said rather than melodramatic confrontation, though the extended runtime occasionally tests whether the premise sustains its own careful pacing.
The film hinges entirely on how Jacobson frames the three-way dynamic through shot scale and eyeline—small shifts between medium and close-up become the whole argument—and that singular formal discipline transforms what could be a therapy-session script into something that actually breathes.