LITTLE GREY BUBBLES | Omeleto

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A woman attends a funeral. Kim and Marlon never met in real life, but they considered one another best friends, bonding initially over a shared love of photography and cameras and texting one another every day. But Marlon dies, sending one last message to Kim saying he had something important to tell her, but not able to send his message before suddenly passing away. With that eternal "dot dot dot" lingering between them -- and wanting to see if she can recover his final message -- Kim decides to attend his funeral to gain a better sense of the friend she never got to meet. Written and directed by Charles Wahl, this thoughtful, elegantly crafted drama probes the elusiveness and mysteries of human connection, as well as the unusual shapes and expressions of grief. It takes on the contemporary subject of online and digital relationships, but it asks eternal questions of what it means to really know someone, and whether such an idea is even possible, even in an age of over-sharing and 24/7 communication. There is almost a severe sense of realism in the visuals, which manage to be both stark and muted by turns, thanks to an emphasis on natural and practical lighting. True to a film whose main characters are photographers, the cinematography is exquisite and restrained, able to conjure an enigmatic atmosphere by transmuting simple and mundane everyday details into symbols of almost talisman-like suggestion. The framings also alternate between a close, almost intense intimacy

Published 2020-02-25 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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