Our Take

One Week (1920) - Buster Keaton’s DIY nightmare is a surrealist masterpiece of architectural chaos. He attempts to build a pre-fab house, only to have the laws of physics and a disgruntled rival spit in his eye. It’s a frantic, rotating ballet of wood and nails that turns domestic bliss into a high-speed disaster zone. The sight of the house spinning like a top in the storm is pure cinematic joy, a testament to Keaton’s obsession with geometry and his total lack of a survival instinct. Twenty minutes of kinetic genius.