IT’S A DATE

It’s a date is a one-shot road movie happening on the strange and phantomatic streets of Kyiv. Rushing through the streets in a first-person POV, we feel a mix up of urgency, danger and restlessness. The viewer is allowed to contemplate with anticipation a meet up between the driver and their beloved, while stressed that a potential death threat might come up at any time. We learn that human connection and romance — here, queer, both in the sense of non-hetero and odd, if we refer to the film’s space and time — are harder to manage and cultivate in a state of war. One has to, inevitably, adapt their ways and practices of love — a fundamental way of coping with dread. (Emilian Lungu)