New Strains

This cheerfully humdrum romcom presents a very homemade slice of firstlockdown life But can its squabbling couple make it through a mysterious pandemic Cowriters and filmmakers Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan play Kallia and Ram young lovers vacationing to New York just as the pandemic unfolds Theyve already descended into petty namecalling when the travel ban prolongs their trip indefinitely trapping them in Kallias uncles apartment