Haizea Pastor is the reason this lands

I came away thinking about Haizea Pastor's work as Director more than I expected. The small reactions do a lot of the heavy lifting. There is a nice lived-in quality to it, nothing too forced. I bought the character pretty quickly, which is not always easy in this kind of film. It is the kind of performance that quietly makes the movie sturdier. A couple of tiny timing choices really stuck with me. That is the part I kept thinking about after the movie ended.