Hannah Weiss-Lindqvist

I have been waiting for this since her short and it is better than I hoped. Two people on a tram at night is not a premise, it is a dare. What makes it work is that the film never lights the interior for the actors. It lights it like a tram. Everything else follows from that one decision.

Concrete is very hard to make look warm and this manages it by grading toward yellow instead of the usual grey green. Skin against a grey wall at golden hour is a genuine test and it holds up. Small thing, but the interiors match the exteriors, which almost never happens on a short.

Nineteen minutes in a housing block in the last week of school and it refuses to be miserable about it. The kids have a good summer. That is the radical part. There is a long take on the balcony walkway, maybe ninety seconds, where the camera just follows a kid running the whole length of the building, and I keep going back for those ninety seconds alone.