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Film: Tiny Furniture
Boring. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing about Netflix streaming, it really encourages turning bad/boring/otherwise unspectacular movies off. Was anyone else kind of surprised Lena Dunham wasn't...how should I say this...hotter?
I just watched Tiny Furniture a few weeks ago on NF streaming. I really enjoyed it. I am, however, a sucker for bourgeois, neurotic, jewish, urbane story lines...please refer to my undying love of Woody Allen.
ReplyDeleteI thought her ugliness was kind of interesting actually. She definitely knows she's "unattractive" but still made the point of exposing her body continually. I rather liked that she did it - don't think I'd want to see it as a recurring theme on say a tv show (which she's presently making) - but as a motif in a 90 minute movie it held my attention.
i put this more in the whit stillman, noah baumbach camp as opposed to woody allen. for manners comedies, i much prefer woody, seinfeld, or renoir. there is a hue to these comedies that i just don't find really funny. the joke is always on other people for being so stupid. i turned this off and started watching party down, which made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought you liked whit Stillman and noah Baumbach.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you about movies that generally portray characters as being stupid - and derive "comedy" from that. I've just never enjoyed them.
I was horrified at Sundance this year by a movie called Compliance. Though it's not a comedy it's entire premise depends on the characters being idiots - making it unwatchable for me.