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A complete love story, told without a single word
The question
Can a complete love story work without a single word?
What I took from it
Silence forces the visuals to tell the story instead of words. Every glance and every detail of her work and concentration carries meaning, and that is what gives the film its twist at the end.
A self-initiated concept film. She’s an architect working from home. He watches her with quiet admiration, careful not to interrupt. At some point he makes her a coffee on the machine and serves it with a smile, and she’s moved. Not a single word is spoken throughout the film, which closes on the line: Love doesn’t need words.