Leaving December 1

Directed by James Vaughan | 81 mins | 2021
In writer/director/editor Vaughan’s ennui-drenched feature debut, molehill difficulties—an impromptu camping trip, an ill-fated wedding video—take on mountainous significance for Ray, an Australian twentysomething living a cushioned life in affluent Sydney. An original work located somewhere at the intersection of bitterly dark comedy, screwball and cringe, Antonioniesque alienation, and Rohmerian ravishment.