Providing a window into a scene at a breakfast table, Something Blue documents a stilted conversation between a man and a woman without elaborating on the woes that have befallen them. From the dialogue and performances, we are to ascertain that this is a couple attempting to heal from a crisis, although it is the spaces between the words and the merest hint of turmoil in their speech that prove more telling than their seemingly mundane tête-à-tête.

Shot with a confident restraint, there are several key moments in which a character glances directly into camera, anchoring the viewer into scene. We are participants in the narrative, perhaps sat with this pair in the kitchen, making the melancholic underpinning all the more poignant. Each close up and shift in focus drawing us closer to both the man (Ric Law) and the woman (Pippa Winslow). The lilting score provides the merest hint of scar tissue over the couple’s unspoken troubles, doing so with subtlety and nuance.

Despite the seven-minute runtime, writer/director Joe Johnson manages to convey a significant amount of anguish and underlying emotion. Something Blue feels personal and private, getting to the core of a familial drama and holding the audience’s attention, leaving us to draw our own conclusions on the husband, the wife, their relationship and (perhaps) troubled history.

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