By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Natalia Sinelnikova
Starring: Ioana Iacob | Jörg Schüttauf | Pola Geiger | Siir Eloglu | Susanne Wuest
Original language title: Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein
Year: 2023
Running time: 94
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13269868/reference/
Michael says: “A social commentary that starts off wickedly funny and gets progressively darker, even while maintaining an edge of humor. Tackling paranoia, mob mentality, fear-mongering (so relevant in today’s world), race and class, WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD has a nice helping of THE LOBSTER as its core. Terrific, assured central performance by Ioana Iacob, clever directorial work by co-screenwriter Natalia Sinelnikova, with great cinematography and use of music in a smart science fiction adjacent tale of a world that could be close at hand. 4 1/2 cats“