There is a story here.
I was in the middle of covering the September film festivals and I was being offered a number of films but because of the way things were falling I was having to say no to a number of things. As part of it I was going back and forth with a certain PR guy about a dark thriller, and then out of the blue he sent me the screener for this film saying it was after the fests and that I should try it. I said I would try and fit it in.
Then the NYFF wave started to go away so I decided to watch the film... which I thought was a dark thriller... and instead I got something else, something wonderfully unexpected
The film is the story of a young woman who goes home with her boyfriend and things happen.
I was kind of blown away by this film. A comedy drama that doesn't go as you expected, this is something special. Told in long scenes that play out way beyond the normal cinematic ones this film is closer to theater except that its actually closer to life because many of the discussions are real and not forved drama. Films don't play out this way and it is enlightening because this is a film that gives us a real sense of people.
While the film isn't perfect, some of the turns are a bit odd, there is a wonderful sense of life in it. There is a realness to the relationships that feels closer to the people we meet in real life as opposed to the carefully constructed people we normally see in films.
This film is a gem. See it.(I've watched it a couple of times now)
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