Breaking Dad: the second baby sanity test
The final part of filmmaker Ben Callner’s highly amusing Apartment trilogy follows how the now father-of-two finds the fabric of his mind is further unravelling.
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Those dark searching eyes, fast-growing, big data-gathering brains, unearthly banshee howls and the fact that they start life suspended upside down in fluid-filled capsules can all point to something slightly non-human about newborns.
Hungry Man director Ben Callner brilliantly captures that infantile alien vibe in Apartment 51 – a story of his possible slide into lunacy as starts to believe his firstborn Lily is being mind-controlled by the new telepathic tot Ella.
Do the siblings actually hail from outer space? You’ll have to watch and see…
Two years ago we first met Lily in the hilarious and moving diary of Callner’s birth into parenthood that was Apartment 9. While the first film in the trilogy, Apartment 8 1/2, documented his descent into dottiness due to the isolation of lockdown.
