Director: Kim Albright
Hearts are literal objects in With Love and a Major Organ, physical things people can hand over, hide, or lose entirely, and one lonely woman does exactly that for a man who doesn't stay to keep it safe.
What is With Love and a Major Organ about?
In a version of the world tuned slightly differently from our own, feelings are treated as inconvenient clutter, and keeping one's heart tucked away is considered ordinary self-care rather than avoidance. Against that backdrop, a woman who has spent her life keeping hers carefully contained decides, for once, to hand it over completely to a man she's fallen for, only for him to leave town with it still in his possession. What follows isn't a straightforward chase to get it back so much as a strange, tender reckoning with what it means to live without the thing you gave away, and whether love built on that kind of surrender can survive contact with an ordinary, heartless-by-design society. The film mixes deadpan comedy with genuine ache, using its high-concept premise to talk plainly about vulnerability without ever spelling the metaphor out.
Cast & crew
Anna Maguire carries the film as the woman who parts with far more than she expects to, opposite Hamza Haq as the man who leaves with her heart, with Veena Sood, Donna Benedicto, Arghavan Jenati, Laara Sadiq, Ryan Beil, and Kerën Burkett rounding out a supporting cast that populates the film's off-kilter version of a modern city.
Context & significance
Director Kim Albright, working from a screenplay adapted from a stage play, keeps the film's fantastical premise grounded in ordinary settings, offices, apartments, city streets, so the emotional logic lands even as the literal one stays strange. The Canadian production treats its central metaphor with a straight face, which is a large part of why the drama underneath the concept stays legible.
Where & how to watch
With Love and a Major Organ can be watched on K-Time with a free account login, part of a Farsi-friendly streaming catalog built for Persian-speaking audiences who also want access to English-language independent drama.