We'll Be Happy Over There
2014 · 10m · USA
Directed by Zach Fleming
Genres: drama, experimental, horror
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
A supernatural shard of a film about a troubled young woman at a lake house. Mood, not plot, does the work.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A film that markets itself as a 'shard' is either honest or insufferable — sometimes both. Worth the gamble at lake-house length.
Calling itself a 'shard' is a flag — could be principled refusal of plot, could be self-protective vagueness. Lowery-meets-Apichatpong is the optimistic read.
Page summary is too thin to grade — 'a supernatural shard' is a stance, not evidence. The deliberate refusal to be a full narrative could be vibey or evasive; without more I can only tentatively trust the lake-house mood-pitch.