Directed by Martin Werner, produced by Copenhagen-based Bacon and made with Denmark agency PONG, this film for Interflora puts us in a time machine as we follow a couple’s date nights at the movies over the decades, starting with their first rendezvous in the 1960s.
Titled “Date Night,” this tug-at-the-heartstrings piece focuses more on universal feelings than flowers, which ties into the sign-off, “Remember those you love.”
This is the first Interflora film with new agency PONG and it marks a return to the emotional and cinematic narrative style that used to be the trademark of the brand’s campaigns in films such as the award-winning “Circus Love” from 2015, also directed by Werner (who is repped by RESET Content in the U.S. ad market).
Credits
Client Interflora Agency PONG Mikkel Elung, Sigurd Bjerre, creative directors. Production Company Bacon Martin Werner, director; Mette Jermiin, exec producer; Lasse Frank, DP; Nana Ama Rothenborg, Nicholas Perry, Oliver K. Sand, production managers; Simone Grau, production designer; Pernille Holm, stylist; Lis Bang, makeup. Editorial Art Official Agency Rasmus Nyholm Schmidt, editor. Sound Design ballad Adrian Aurelius, sound designer. Music “Slow Mover”; Louise Alenius, Ben Kaniewski, composers. VFX BaconX Kai Hauswirth, Johannes Englehardt. Color Grade BaconX Lasse Selvil, colorist.
How do you top one of the most viral brand videos ever made? Spoiler alert: you can’t. But when Dollar Shave Club tapped Zack Seckler to direct a new campaign to revive the absurdist humor of its iconic launch video, he knew he had a rare opportunity to create something special.
The brief was simple: introduce the concept of a physical “Club” that people would love to join while showcasing Dollar Shave Club’s products and embracing the weird. From script to direction and post, Seckler--an alum of SHOOT’s 2021 New Directors Showcase--was invited to help sculpt that vision.
The result is this “Welcome to the Club” spot which invites us to join a unique, seemingly exclusive but in reality an accessible and affordable fraternity of Dollar Shave Club members. But you need to know the password or more accurately, the two-word phrase--"shave money."
“The Club” campaign brings the brand back to its humorous roots, reflecting a new chapter after being acquired by Nexus Capital Management from Unilever in late 2023. The work takes Dollar Shave Club back to its disruptive beginnings and what made the brand a viral sensation from its inception in 2011.
