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A man takes a bath. Andrew and Shannon are a couple living in suburban Melbourne. Shannon cooks dinner while indulging in raunchy talk online with a seductive stranger. Andrew is taking a bath, wrapped in Christmas lights and clearly in crisis. Both people seem to be living separate lives, right in the same home. But when things don't go as planned for Andrew -- and the snafu also gets in the way of Shannon's own directives -- the two are forced to come out of their bubbles and come together. Writer-director Yianni Warnock's short film is filmed much like a drama full of excellent craftsmanship, with elegant, restrained camerawork and cinematography, performances that are grounded in emotional truth and suffering and a full orchestral score underpinning the most dramatic moments of the narrative. Yet the short is also undeniably funny, with the complex, ironic writing finding its humor initially in the juxtaposition of urgent, deep existential suffering with the quotidian boredom of everyday suburban life. The opening scene sets the tone, as Shannon prepares dinner, all while talking to her sexy online stranger. The two tasks couldn't be more different, and yet Shannon approaches both with the same harried, preoccupied efficiency, trying to squeeze a bit of sexiness into the busyness of dinner hour. Beyond its humor, the scene says so much about who Shannon is and the life she lives -- or doesn't live, as the case may be -- with Andrew. Meanwhile, in a parallel narrativ

Published 2020-05-05 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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