Frustrated by a long wait for her tardy boyfriend, a young woman is unsatisfied by the candle he sheepishly offers in retribution, then sulks at the armfuls of roses he snaps up from a deli. Her brooding evaporates at the turn of a corner, when she and her ruefully silent companion are confronted by a wall adorned with flyers depicting people still regarded as missing after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Direction
Saks weaponizes the short form—no time to brace.
Acting
Davis's face: petty annoyance to mute horror in seconds.
Director
Eva Saks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chadwick Boseman appears briefly as a New Yorker—one of his earliest screen credits before MCU stardom.
Shot in 2004, this captures the raw, unprocessed grief of a city still papered with the dead—before 9/11 became 'history.'
US
