We Should Get Dinner!
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Eliza Jimenez Cossio, Lexi Tannenholtz
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, tense
Estranged ex-step-siblings reunite after almost a decade and immediately start fighting about what they are to each other now. Built around one unbroken 360-degree spin when the real motive lands.
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The 'we should get dinner' text everyone sends and nobody means, finally weaponized into a film. The spinning shot alone earns the price of admission.
A single uninterrupted 360-degree rotating shot anchoring a sibling-rivalry reveal is exactly the kind of load-bearing formal gesture that makes a chamber piece worth watching. Cossio and Tannenholtz committed to the geometry.
An unbroken 360-degree rotating shot anchored to the motive reveal is the kind of formal commitment that turns chamber-piece bickering into geometry. The wolves-vs-werewolves dinner banter sells the ex-step-sibling rhythm.