Ten minutes. Four people. One dinner that'll wreck your weekend plans.
A short film about our social behaviors, the complexity of emotion and, ultimately, the nature of being human. Two couples get together after some time. In the process of catching up, making dinner and eating, each member of the party touches in on their inner emotional states.
Acting
Four actors doing Olympic-level pretending
Direction
Rose turns a dinner table into a pressure cooker
Cinematography
Close-ups that feel like reading someone's texts
Director
Josh S. Rose
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rose developed this after a real dinner party where he realized everyone was performing their relationships.
The entire film was shot in one continuous take—no cuts to hide from the awkwardness.
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