Minimum Love

Minimum Lásky

'How are you?' asks the director of people leaving a Prague subway station. The short answers of tired passers-by are followed by statements from Czech youth, recorded from an almost unbearable proximity. Furious drunkenness is replaced by tender embraces, and behind harsh words lie immediate reflections on an uncertain world. They talk about sex, feminism, the war nearby, the climate crisis. Night is the film's basic colour — connecting the sounds of city streets with long, silent shots of loneliness. Each of the film's eight scenes shows not only exhaustion from life, but also love that is missing, longed for, and always falls short.