Four minutes to undo your entire emotional stability. Bring tissues.
A girl thinks she can get a glimpse of the afterlife and ropes her friend into it.
Direction
Davies packs a lifetime of grief into four minutes
Director
Luna Davies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bowlondudel and Kimpel recorded their dialogue separately, never meeting until the film's festival premiere—director Luna Davies wanted their natural hesitancy to mirror characters learning to trust each other's impossible claims.
The title references Somerset Maugham's 'The Lotus Eater'—the euphoric oblivion of forgetting mortality—which takes on haunting new meaning when experienced by a child rather than the story's original weary adult.
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