A very enjoyable film that at first had me thinking Australian film but Americanized. For me the highlights are the painfully ignorant teenaged girls and the way too confident six-year-old emailer. It's all innocent fun and well worth your time though ultimately very Californian in its sensibilities and attitudes. (Bible belters best see something else.) Kinda made me want to pack up and move West (though word is I'm too late).
I asked Miranda July (at Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival) if she had seen Napoleon Dynamite and she said she had. She admitted she liked it but did not call it an inspiration. Perhaps if we had talked longer, but the crowd was pressing in. And, no wonder, she's very much as depicted in her film: oddly endearing for a performance artist.
I asked Miranda July (at Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival) if she had seen Napoleon Dynamite and she said she had. She admitted she liked it but did not call it an inspiration. Perhaps if we had talked longer, but the crowd was pressing in. And, no wonder, she's very much as depicted in her film: oddly endearing for a performance artist.