With his second feature film (following 2002's Funny Ha Ha), Andrew Bujalski is emerging as one of the most idiosyncratic talents in contemporary American cinema: a quietly assured satirist, whose love of language, and unsparing eye for emotional hypocrisy, puts him in the company of Whit (Metropolitan) Stillman and France's Eric Rohmer. Here he follows the misadventures of Alan, an alt-rock singer-songwriter from Boston, who comes to Williamsburg, Brooklyn after a break-up with his bandmates. But his music soon takes a back seat to various entanglements, romantic and otherwise - not least, his growing attraction to Ellie, the live-in girlfriend of his buddy Lawrence. Indebted to the films of Jim Jarmusch and John Cassavetes, and shooting (like them) in grainy B&W 16mm, Bujalski invests this love triangle with real empathy for his bumbling, hyper-articulate characters, and a sly, edgy humour.
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