A ghosting story as much as a ghost story, this film sees twentysomething office drone Alex (Blu Hunt) strike gold on dating app called Friktion. Uncannily attuned to her emotions, hunky barista Kyle (Ben Smith-Petersen) appears to be the elusive perfect match. So after several blissful hook-ups, Alex can’t believe it when he suddenly blanks her messages – and is appalled to walk into a bar to witness him use the same line on another date: “We don’t really need to talk, do we?”
After making inquiries regarding his whereabouts in the intervening time, Alex learns something shocking: that apparently she matches with dead people. With Kyle’s amnesiac revenant now haunting Alex, director Elric Kane deftly modulates this mashup of state-of-dating drama, erotic thriller and light supernatural foray. In the initial stages, he maintains a mood of uneasy languor as blase Alex navigates her carousel of sexual possibilities. But he switches to a mode of abrupt Lynchian dislocations and ruptures as the increasingly bunny-boilerish Kyle monopolises her life.
