What is life? What are the goals one sets out to achieve? What is the overall story or goal of this? Things cannot always be summed up easily. The movie (that has characters that may or may not be based on real people) is treating its 2 plus hours like an episodic story ... it begins quite romantic ... but a love that cannot actually happen, right? The age difference being one of the issues ... and some other things - the personalities of the our two leads to name another thing.
And what a great debut by Alanna Haim. Her sisters are in this too. Now maybe that is saying something to you (I had not heard of them or their music I think, though I might have heard a song or two I reckon), it didn't for me and others. But that doesn't matter - because her performance is as genuine, raw and awesome as it gets.
The movie also has so many stars in it ... you may get lost. You also may miss one or two of them. I actually spotted or rather heard one, that the friend I was with couldn't recognize. To be fair it is one of the "Munsters". And he also is being credited as playing himself in the credits. But a look on imdb reveals that I heard right and identified the actor who played him for a few seconds. Be surprised if you wanna find out yourself or check the casting.
Having said all that, there is so much humor in this. Most is quite subtle or at least weird. The episodic nature of it all combined with that will either make you love it to bits or be quite annoyed by it. You cannot take away anything from the quality this has within though. So while that can be said without a shadow of a doubt, you have to be in the mood for a movie like this. You have to really dig the sensitivity of it all. And if you do ... the two plus hours will fly by like nothing ... as if it were running all the time - no pun intended I think.
And what a great debut by Alanna Haim. Her sisters are in this too. Now maybe that is saying something to you (I had not heard of them or their music I think, though I might have heard a song or two I reckon), it didn't for me and others. But that doesn't matter - because her performance is as genuine, raw and awesome as it gets.
The movie also has so many stars in it ... you may get lost. You also may miss one or two of them. I actually spotted or rather heard one, that the friend I was with couldn't recognize. To be fair it is one of the "Munsters". And he also is being credited as playing himself in the credits. But a look on imdb reveals that I heard right and identified the actor who played him for a few seconds. Be surprised if you wanna find out yourself or check the casting.
Having said all that, there is so much humor in this. Most is quite subtle or at least weird. The episodic nature of it all combined with that will either make you love it to bits or be quite annoyed by it. You cannot take away anything from the quality this has within though. So while that can be said without a shadow of a doubt, you have to be in the mood for a movie like this. You have to really dig the sensitivity of it all. And if you do ... the two plus hours will fly by like nothing ... as if it were running all the time - no pun intended I think.