HEARD SHE GOT MARRIED
Dir. Charles Roxburgh, 2021.
United States. 76 min.
In English.

"Its melancholy tone, slow-burn suspense plot, chilly mise-en-scène, and comically stylized dialogue/acting combine to create a tone and style that deserves the frequently abused term “Lynchian” — but there’s no one term that quite describes what they’ve come up with here."
—Will Sloan, Screen Slate

In line with many Motern films which focus on outcasts and the return of hometown heroes, HEARD SHE GOT MARRIED is part one of a duo saga about the once-great musician Mitch Owens (Farley). Owens found success outside of his familiar “tri-town area,” but a career slump has forced him to return. Here, he considers the price of pursuing your art and the friends that you leave behind, while finding himself in close quarters with his suspicious, bass-playing mailman.

HEARD SHE GOT MARRIED meditates on reaching middle age as a struggling creative, and it presents a stark tonal shift from previous Motern films while still imbued with the same familiar oddball dialogue and quirky acting. While Married stands on its own, viewers are encouraged to seek out the thrilling conclusion to Mitch Owens’s story, 2023’s Heard She Got Murdered.

Q&A with Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh, moderated by Peter Kuplowsky.