1000 Tiny Birds: 2024 edition

The Sweet East (2024)

2024-04-02

  1. Off the bat, it’s got Ayo Edibiri in it, so I’m in.

  2. There’s something of the dream logic to this, a kaleidoscopic film where the protagonist just seems to float from situation to situation, not really a continuous flow but neither discrete chapters.

  3. To that end, though, there are interstitial title cards, and more films should have those please and thank you.

  4. The way Lillian… not quite grows, but accumulates experience and uses that to blag her way through the next escapade time and time again is intriguing. There’s probably some deeper subtext to it, but I don’t know. Something to ponder.

  5. It’s beautifully shot by Sean Price Williams, who shot most of Alex Ross Perry’s work which, yeah, tracks.