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It’s a Date

Name: It’s a Date
Director: Nadia Parfan
Released: 2023
Duration: 6 min

Representation Score

7.3/10

Good

2023

Director

Nadia Parfan

Runtime

6 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Nadia Parfan’s experimental short is a formalist exercise that replaces traditional character-driven ability to act with sensory-driven environmental ability to act. Using a single, unedited shot, the film mirrors the instability of Kyiv during the 2022 conflict. The work serves as a meditation on the disruption of normalcy. It avoids overt identity-based storytelling, focusing instead on the visceral, high-velocity experience of a state of emergency. While the film lacks specific markers of diversity, its refusal to follow standard dramatic structures provides a non-traditional perspective on contemporary crisis.

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Category Breakdown

Does It’s a Date have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film centers on the movement of a vehicle through a city in crisis. There are no specific LGBTQ+ character arcs or romantic subplots.

How does It’s a Date portray gender?

Fair

The subjective camera angle emphasizes the immediacy of the moment rather than gender hierarchies. The narrative maintains a neutral stance without reinforcing or challenging traditional gender roles.

How racially and ethnically diverse is It’s a Date?

Fair

Set in Kyiv, the environment is ethnically uniform. However, it avoids the typical heroic or adversarial racial dynamics found in Western war dramas.

How does It’s a Date represent religion and culture?

Good

The film depicts the breakdown of urban normalcy and societal structures. It offers a raw view of systemic vulnerability during wartime.

Does It’s a Date include disability representation?

Fair

There is no discernible portrayal of physical or neurodivergent identities. The focus remains on the kinetic movement and the psychological impact of the environment.

Present on Screen

The single-shot technique effectively captures the psychological tension of a city in crisis.
It avoids cliché war cinema clichés by emphasizing subjective, emotional velocity.
The film provides a raw, unvarnished look at systemic vulnerability during wartime.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks specific character-driven identity markers or interpersonal subplots.
The focus on environmental tension leaves little room for exploring diverse individual identities.

Official Synopsis

Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this remale of Claude Lelouch's "C'était un rendez-vous" captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.

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