52 Films by Women Vol 8. 36. This Closeness (Director: Kit Zauhar)
Pictured : Tessa ( Kit Zauhar ) inspects her temporary lodgings in a scene from the 2023 American independent drama, 'This Closeness', written, directed and starring Kit Zauhar . Still courtesy of Factory 25. Normally, I would advocate for every film to be screened in a cinema, to be enjoyed as a collective experience, discussed and dissected accordingly. However, This Closeness , written, directed and starring Kit Zauhar (her second feature), is almost designed to be watched on a laptop (as I saw it) with the sound broadcast through headphones. It is a film in which the action is confined to a two-bedroom apartment, which has one bathroom with a shower and a kitchen-diner. You get to know most of the spaces pretty well, so by the end you could draw a floorplan and probably put it on the market. Some films make you experience something real; this one turns you into a realtor. The scene that really comes alive at home occurs when the socially awkward, reluctant host Adam ( I...