A young female playwright gets a dream commission with the National Theater of Canada and then runs into problems since her first play, which has a plot described as being too complicated to explain without spoilers, is being billed as based on personal experience. This freaks out her friends and family who wonder what secrets she knows and what is she going to reveal.
Don't go into this film expecting a raucous comedy, instead you have to go into it expecting a film that is more about the ideas it is trying to explore, specifically who gets to tell what story and someone too young to write a wise work. The issue here is that the story is well written and entirely made up. It isn't based on anything that happened to her despite the theater trying to sell the film.
I'm not certain this film works. It's not the theatrical style the film is presented (the film has sections marked like "Overture" and as moment best described as theatrical interludes) rather the script doesn't really work. More specifically the conversations are from natural with every piece of dialog aimed at getting to some greater truth. We get repeated statements as if the film was written by someone from Netflix who insists we are told what is going on every so many minutes. I kept wondering why everything was being stated as it was since no one speaks like that.
I disconnected early and I never reconnected.
While I admire what the film is trying to do, I don't like how it is doing it.
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