Highly acclaimed debut film from Miranda July, who also stars as Christine, an eccentric but sweet artist who falls for a newly separated shoe-salesman. It's a frustrating film which fluctuates between moments of genuine sweetness as the various characters reach out to each other for love and affection, or even simple human interaction, but it also has some horribly self-conscious, pretentious moments. The actors are all pretty good, but the film just has that forced quirkiness you too often see in US indie cinema - from the music, to the light and airy visual style, the clever-clever dialogue and slightly controversial events involving children.
It's worth a watch if you like off-beat stuff like "Happiness", "Punch-Drunk Love", "Napoleon Dynamite" etc but, unfortunately, it's not as satisfying as any of those.
It's worth a watch if you like off-beat stuff like "Happiness", "Punch-Drunk Love", "Napoleon Dynamite" etc but, unfortunately, it's not as satisfying as any of those.