A 13-minute masterclass in the unspoken loneliness of new motherhood.
A woman grappling with difficulty finding sexual pleasure after childbirth falls back on an old coping habit.
Acting
Fabianne Therese's face does brutal, wordless heavy lifting.
Direction
Jessica Barr frames medical spaces as psychological horror.
Editing
Tight 13 minutes feel like suffocating hours—deliberately.
Director
Jessica Barr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Screened at Sundance 2024, part of a wave of shorts tackling postpartum realities Hollywood ignores. The 'six-week checkup' as narrative device is devastatingly specific.
The doctor's clinical detachment versus the protagonist's private ritual creates a devastating split-screen of public and private female experience. That contrast IS the film's thesis.
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