Miranda July’s intriguing, deadpan comedy tracks the foibles and fortunes of a dysfunctional family of grifters
Miranda July floats you along on a cloud of weightless, dreamy inconsequentiality in this deader-than-deadpan comedy, shot in a hard, blank, bleachy LA light. I have taken some time to acclimatise to her distinctive, affectlessly sentimental film-making, but it is growing on me, and Kajillionaire is intriguing.
It is the story of a dysfunctional and poverty-stricken family trio of scammers, whose daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood, is only just beginning to realise in her mid-20s that something is very wrong with the way she has been brought up and the way they all live their lives together – and the people they are tricking know something she doesn’t. Her sociopath parents Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have given her the strange name Old Dolio, for absurd and demeaning reasons...
Miranda July floats you along on a cloud of weightless, dreamy inconsequentiality in this deader-than-deadpan comedy, shot in a hard, blank, bleachy LA light. I have taken some time to acclimatise to her distinctive, affectlessly sentimental film-making, but it is growing on me, and Kajillionaire is intriguing.
It is the story of a dysfunctional and poverty-stricken family trio of scammers, whose daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood, is only just beginning to realise in her mid-20s that something is very wrong with the way she has been brought up and the way they all live their lives together – and the people they are tricking know something she doesn’t. Her sociopath parents Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have given her the strange name Old Dolio, for absurd and demeaning reasons...
- 10/9/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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