Desperate to get across London to meet his girlfriend off the Eurostar, a man persuades a pretty bicycle courier to take him on the back of her bike, creating a dilemma he wasn't expecting.
Acting
Freeman's panicked charm vs. May's effortless cool.
Direction
The Guard brothers squeeze a feature's worth of longing into 7 minutes.
Cinematography
London streets as romantic obstacle course.
Director
Thomas Guard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single day on a £5,000 budget, this was the Guard brothers' calling card before Hollywood came knocking with The Uninvited (2009).
Part of a mid-2000s wave of British 'micro-shorts' that proved digital filmmaking could deliver emotional punches in under ten minutes—paving the way for Vimeo's rise as a filmmaker platform.
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