Director: Rachel Lambert
A quiet Oregon office is the last place anyone would expect a love story to take root, yet that is exactly where Fran spends her days, alone with her spreadsheets and her private daydreams of disappearing.
What is Sometimes I Think About Dying about?
Fran works an unglamorous office job in a small coastal town, and her inner life is far stranger than her outward routine suggests: she pictures her own death in small, almost peaceful ways, using the fantasy as a release valve from a life that otherwise feels muted. Everything shifts when Robert, an easygoing new coworker, joins the team and starts drawing her out with warmth and unexpected humor. A shared laugh over office small talk turns into a tentative friendship, then a date built around pie and awkward honesty. Fran wants connection, but years of retreating into her own head have made vulnerability feel dangerous, and the film follows the halting, sometimes funny, sometimes aching steps she takes toward letting someone see her clearly.
Cast & crew
Daisy Ridley trades blockbuster scale for something far more interior, letting silences and half-smiles carry Fran's inner world. Dave Merheje plays Robert with a relaxed, unforced charm that gives their scenes together room to breathe, while Marcia DeBonis and Megan Stalter add texture as office colleagues who orbit Fran without ever quite reaching her.
Context & significance
Director Rachel Lambert builds the film around long static shots and patient pacing, a style choice that mirrors Fran's detachment rather than working against it. The screenplay grew out of a short film and keeps that compact, focused shape, favoring small human details over dramatic incident. Critics at its festival premiere praised the film's tonal balance, calling it a tender study of loneliness that resists both melodrama and easy uplift.
Where & how to watch
Sometimes I Think About Dying streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, part of a library built around a smooth, Persian-language viewing experience for Iranian audiences abroad. The film's page is free to browse; watching it requires only a quick K-Time account login, with no separate purchase or unfamiliar platform to navigate.