Aaron's Thoughts
Sundance 2025 #2
Part of the magic of Sundance is watching members of my generation (Gen Z) get an opportunity to showcase their work at a major level. The festival has already given us so many great films from Gen Z filmmakers like Molly Gordon (2023 festival), Cooper Raiff (2022 & 2025 festival), & Sean Wang (2024 festival).
All that to say, I had high hopes that Katarina Zhu & her first feature “Bunnylovr” would be added to that list.
While I think that Zhu does a good job capturing the anxiety & social challenges that can come from being raised in a chronically online world, the whole thing pretty hollow and hard to engage with. Aimlessness seems to be part of the point that she is going for in the script, but that aimlessness really works against the film, not for it.
I think that Zhu has a good movie in her (you can tell by her control of tone & suspense in moments that she knows what she is doing), it’s just not this one.
