Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Puffy Chair - 2005 - 3 Stars

Actors: Mark Duplass, Katheryn Asleton
Director: Jay Duplass

The Puffy Chair seems to be a throwback to 70s films like The Last Detail or The King of Marvin Gardens - characters loosely drawn by what they do, adrift in a post-something state. There's emotional discussions, discussions where characters reveal more by what they don't say, and the like. There's also a fair amount of humor, but not humor in the arch Wes Anderson style that one might expect. Hardly essential viewing, but The Puffy Chair has a nice handmade aesthetic and avoids becoming a shaggy-dog story.


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