Movie

Piaffe

2023 · 86 min

A hushed, tactile fever dream of sound and skin that unsettles more than it explains, rewarding patience with strange bodily unease.

Overview: When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, melancholic and romantic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, gender, obsession, isolation
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence, gore and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
gender
obsession
isolation
sexuality
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong