Framing dinner scenes can be difficult for filmmakers, as it can be hard to know how to make what is essentially a sit-down conversation cinematic. Perhaps budding directors should study the many different ways Eliza Jiménez Cossio and Lexi Tannenholtz stage We Should Get Dinner!, which uses rapid-fire editing, a propulsive score, and even an ambitious dolly shot in order to keep on escalating the inherent tension at the heart of this sibling comedy-drama. Asking some key questions about what happens when you take someone up on a half-hearted offer, and whether or not family is something that is given or you have to work on, it is at once a meaningful experience and a deeply funny one. We had the wonderful opportunity to talk to both of the New York-based directors about creating the “smallest dolly in the world”, working on alternating close-ups and the choice behind the film’s jazzy drum score.
- 10/19/2022
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
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