'Pizzaslice' is an excellent piece for an easy character study with a slight plot twist. It’ll make you feel pity and make you smile. It is vulnerable and genuine. It is just perfectly everything I enjoy about film.
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Pizzaslice follows a young man grappling with the reality that he is constantly left behind by his friends. He drowns his sorrows in alcohol with a mysterious young woman by his side.
I really love this style of filmmaking.
Sebastian (Tobias Christiansen) is played with a disarming vulnerability and initially seems like your average party casualty until revitalised by Emilie (Alice Straarup). Pizza slice weaponises their intimacy. Mid-film, the short was giving me Before Sunrise or Normal People energy, and I just adored the close-up, high definition and personal shots. A character study will always win my heart, and Pizzaslice is just that. As Emilie, a mysterious young woman pushing Sebastian’s character along, becomes more and more manipulative, I became more engaged in the piece, falling out of love with their story and more in love with Sebastian as a character.
Director Carl Johan Holmboe Dahl and cinematographer Oskar Stamp Misfeldt capture the bleary, in-between hours of the night with a raw, almost voyeuristic eye. This was just perfect for a story steeped in social tension and blurred judgment.
Pizzaslice is an excellent piece for an easy character study with a slight plot twist. It’ll make you feel pity and make you smile. It is vulnerable and genuine. It is just perfectly everything I enjoy about film.
@obscurae