A Passing Storm

Paintings serve as a regular source of inspiration to me. I’ve encountered this painting on an app which presents new art every day (Daily Art) and instantly fell in love it. Especially the separation of the characters expressed through several means (the juxtaposition of their faces, him claiming the upper half of the painting and her owning the lower half; the amount of detail in her face, the layers they occupy, the “set design” – the window, the separate rooms, them still being connected by the open balcony door, …) and the setting of a passing storm in the background. This sparked a multitude of ideas and a fascination for the dynamics of an arguing couple.

Our film now wants to recapture some of the ideas presented in this painting. I’ve based the structure of the script on the idea of a storm – there is a build-up, the storm itself and the calm after the storm. And there are more literal references, like the protagonists being a couple who argue, an actual storm accompanying their fight and expressing their relationship through spatial means (= blocking).