Friday, December 26, 2014

Drinking Buddies - 2013 - 3 Stars

Actors:  Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson
Director:  Joe Swanberg

I've not seen a Joe Swanberg film before - I do know they have a reputation for being improvisational and talky and mumblecore-y and whatever words you want to throw on it.  The film definitely meanders, but sometimes a film needs to meander in order to hit the notes it's going for.  Relationships - romantic or otherwise - are generally unspoken agreements, and this film explores what happens when people try to say as little about those relationships as possible.  I suspect the main criticism of this film is that none of the characters are likable, but I also think that for the film to exist in the space that it does, they can't be likable.

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