A comedy with something to say
Relatable failure. We laugh because we recognize the desperation to be “someone” in a world of social media noise — and the film holds up a mirror to it.
SC.05 · The meta-narrative
A film about making a film badly.
Synopsis
Reese is a mother clinging to acting as her last lifeline to identity — while her marriage frays and her adopted daughter struggles. Agata is a Polish actress living on borrowed time and a tourist visa, hustling every angle from influencer gigs to $20 roles.
When Lala, an overzealous indie filmmaker with delusions of grandeur, invites them aboard a cruise ship to make “art”, both say yes. What she delivers is a series of bizarre, low-budget melodramas — cringe-worthy scripts, questionable direction, iPhones and a crooked green screen.
Between forced fun on deck and breakdowns off camera, the shoot becomes a spiral into humiliated vulnerability — and a mirror to the loneliness of social media and the hustle culture of Hollywood.
