某实力雄厚、背景神秘的大集团展开公开招聘,经过激烈角逐,最终有8名精英男女入围最终测试。他们被带入一间近乎全封闭的房间,在测试期间只有三条规则:1)禁止与考官和警卫交谈;2)禁止污损考卷;3)禁止离开房间。违反其中一条规则,将丧失考试的资格。应聘者面前的考卷是白纸一张,却发贸然落笔也是污损考卷的一种。在各种奇怪的规则之下,这几位精英变得手足无措,个性张扬的白人男子(卢克•梅布利 Luke Mably 饰)率先提议应试者们要共同合作,解决问题。拥有不同背景的男女看似走到一起,却不知机关暗藏其中。
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.