Short film

The Staggering Girl

2019 · 37 min

A dreamlike, fragmented drift through memory and art, more mood than story, asking patience and rewarding atmosphere over clarity.

Overview: Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, identity, family, art
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
family
art
aging
Places: big city
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild