Directed, Shot and Edited by: Joe Swanberg
Written by: Joe Swanberg, Greta Gerwig, Kent Osborne
Streaming on MUBI.
This film falls in the Mumblecore movement - a sub genre of independent cinema. Typically Mumblecore films are made on extremely low budget, they are quite talky in nature, have few actors with improvised dialogue. Films which probably work on this tone, but made in a slightly more big scale and a structured way would be the Before Trilogy, and such films. This movement has taken cinema to one extreme, which has in turn opened up so much more in terms of the style. Many films need not be Mumblecore, but they can fall anywhere in the middle of the spectrum, according to the story.
This film doesn't call attention to itself, and even to its characters. The vibe of the film is such that there are a few friends sitting beside you and bantering, and it's like you are sitting there, partly zoned out, but partly invested and you stay with them for an hour or two and then come back to your own world. That's the kind of experience the film gives. It's in a way very sublime. It's inspiring to see where all the filmmakers started from, now all of them are doing pretty good - Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Mark Duplass and others. Though I didn't engage very much with the film and its characters, I really didn't mind it only because of its tone and aesthetics and I felt like I was hanging around a bunch of people bantering.
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