One Word Movie

Me and You and Everyone We Know

See, this film is written and directed by Miranda July. She stars in it as well. And, worst of all, she's a video installation artist. Oh dear, it is quite the rational thing to do to expect this to stink.

Bizarrely enough, it's actually quite good, for a girl's film. I feel as if some insidious re-calibration of my internal aesthetic preferences might be going on. It's still fake, obviously (for instance, the shoe-guy, he's separated, but you never find out why he is), but it's moderately interesting and original too. There are kids and old people in it. And a goldfish, which was not harmed during the making of the movie.

It seems that you can't read a review of this film without someone calling it quirky. Call it twee, if you will, you should have guessed that from the poster. But quirky, well, that puzzles me, because what goes on in this picture clearly interacts, if only weakly, with the fucked-up world of real life. Compare this with Con Air, for instance. Nothing in Con Air would ever happen in real life. EVER. So I don't think Me and You and Everyone We Know is so terribly quirky after all.

Video installations in art galleries are still shit though.

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 2:31 PM