We Will
2016 · 3m · Australia
Directed by Laura Nagy
Tones: contemplative, tender
The story of a lesbian couple, Claire and Rachel, from their first date and first awkward kiss to their wedding day, about the normality of same-sex relationships.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A three-minute valentine to gay domesticity—which sounds like the safest possible premise until you realize Nagy is doing something genuinely radical by refusing to aestheticize or dramatize it; the ordinariness *is* the subversion, and it's bracing precisely because it doesn't perform its own boldness.
Nagy's formal restraint here—the way she lets time compress across three minutes without sentimentality, each beat measured and placed—positions this within a lineage of essayistic portraiture that treats intimacy as something to be observed rather than performed; it's the kind of small gem that reveals its craft on the third viewing.
The real move is how Nagy uses the temporal collapse—moments bleeding into each other without clear transitions—to make you feel the weight and speed of a shared life simultaneously, and that single editing choice transforms what could have been a greeting-card narrative into something genuinely felt and singular.