Years
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Christian Cerezo
Tones: absurdist, humorous, tender
A married couple invites a young artist to live with them temporarily while the husband indulges his new fitness regimen: wearing a full suit of knight's armor through his daily routine.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Husband-in-armor as a fitness trend is the kind of one-line premise I usually distrust, but Cerezo plays it absolutely straight — the marriage is the real story, the armor is just the costume it wears.
A husband in plate armor as load-bearing domestic furniture — Cerezo doing dry surrealism with a third-wheel POV is a clean formal idea. The conceit could thin out, but the framing instinct is right.
A husband wearing knight's armor through daily chores while a third-wheel artist absorbs the weirdness is the cleanest possible delivery system for Lanthimosian domestic deadpan. Cerezo's chamber-piece register is exactly the architecture this gag needs.
Reviews
Cerezo's film is handled with simplicity and wit, tonally comparable to his 2018 short, 'A Bride and a Groom.'