When Charlie and her girlfriend Cerina decide to have a baby together, the idea of using Cerina's ex-boyfriend Josh as the live-in donor turns an easy on-paper idea into a much more challeng... Read allWhen Charlie and her girlfriend Cerina decide to have a baby together, the idea of using Cerina's ex-boyfriend Josh as the live-in donor turns an easy on-paper idea into a much more challenging event.When Charlie and her girlfriend Cerina decide to have a baby together, the idea of using Cerina's ex-boyfriend Josh as the live-in donor turns an easy on-paper idea into a much more challenging event.
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Whew - this one is a slog to sit thru.
Wonder if we'll ever move thru this tedious millennial generation of upper middle suburban kids thinking they can make "gritty" real-life films just because the parents footed the bill for them 1) to go to film school and 2) mount their first "indie".
The narrative on this one is thin - the self-induced and fixated upon angst of "alternative of lifestyle" challenges. I think the suburban film school kids thing this is cutting edge stuff - or else they're $$$ cunning enough to ride "The L Word" wave" for as long as it curls.
Of course the "cinematography" is very studied - the director seems to have quite the penchant for placing the actors to either the far left or far right of the screen frame - it's interesting the first couple of times, but after dozens and dozens of instances of the techniques it get more than a little predictable.
And, of course, again de rigeur for the well-heeled film school suburban kid, there's lots of "gritty" settings of down and out dusty small towns and urban laundromats and 10-table "cool" neighborhood eating parlors. Ahh, yawn ...
And, of course, even the characters are supposedly very edgey independent gals, there's the intrusion of the unwitting affluent suburban parents - always the parents - in a showcased scene.
Well, by now, you must have the drift of my assessment of this thing - it's awful, it's boring, it's just so bourgeoise.
And, btw, the music is awful and edited in with atrocious awkwardness - the the dialogue, which I fear, is much ad libbed is banal par excellence.
There it is. :-)
Wonder if we'll ever move thru this tedious millennial generation of upper middle suburban kids thinking they can make "gritty" real-life films just because the parents footed the bill for them 1) to go to film school and 2) mount their first "indie".
The narrative on this one is thin - the self-induced and fixated upon angst of "alternative of lifestyle" challenges. I think the suburban film school kids thing this is cutting edge stuff - or else they're $$$ cunning enough to ride "The L Word" wave" for as long as it curls.
Of course the "cinematography" is very studied - the director seems to have quite the penchant for placing the actors to either the far left or far right of the screen frame - it's interesting the first couple of times, but after dozens and dozens of instances of the techniques it get more than a little predictable.
And, of course, again de rigeur for the well-heeled film school suburban kid, there's lots of "gritty" settings of down and out dusty small towns and urban laundromats and 10-table "cool" neighborhood eating parlors. Ahh, yawn ...
And, of course, even the characters are supposedly very edgey independent gals, there's the intrusion of the unwitting affluent suburban parents - always the parents - in a showcased scene.
Well, by now, you must have the drift of my assessment of this thing - it's awful, it's boring, it's just so bourgeoise.
And, btw, the music is awful and edited in with atrocious awkwardness - the the dialogue, which I fear, is much ad libbed is banal par excellence.
There it is. :-)
10intrvw
A very good story of love and finding truth with a great cast and excellent directing. Very good acting.
I gave this movie some minor attention. But it was only a second choice when "Devil Doll'-1964 was in a commercial break on Friday Night Frights. The title caught my interest, but there was no mention of the reference in the other two reviews, so I may have missed what the story had to do with Dolly Parton when I surfed back to the other channel. The subject matter of the film (lesbians looking for a sperm donor from a homeless gay ex) a little far-fetched unless you live in San Francisco, was not something I was at all interested in sitting through. Perhaps if I were younger, it might have captured my interest, but I couldn't get past the mumbling dialogue and several contrived acting scenes by all cast members. I have phenomenal hearing too, so it wasn't me. Perhaps it was a lousy sound engineer. There was also no captioning available. Not worth finishing in my opinion based on all of the above detractors.
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Did you know
- TriviaIn the 31st minute one sees the outside of a small movie theatre with a billboard which reads 'AIR (...) LE VOYAGE 27.' Le voyage dans la lune (English: A Trip to the Moon) is the sixth studio album by French electronic music duo Air. Released in 2012, it was inspired by the 1902 science fiction film Le voyage dans la lune by Georges Méliès and is intended to be a soundtrack to the restored version of the silent film. The 13 minute short is considered to be the first science film and featured the iconic black and white image of the moon with a human face superimposed over it, into whose eye a human space ship crashes. Some of this iconic movie's scenes appear in the Smashing Pumpkins' video for 'Tonight, Tonight.'
- GoofsIn the 23rd minute Charlie and Cerina are seen pictured in their car which has no front license plate. California law requires both front and back plates.
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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