(Miranda
July/2011/Germany & USA)
A couple
in their early 40’s, who seem stuck in a scene from their 20’s,
decide to adopt a cat and the fabric of everything begins to come
apart for them. It’s a hipstery, nerdish analogy for parenthood
anxiety that encompasses all sorts of quirk and weird. The result is
a cute film but I’m not sure of the substance of it to be honest. I
mean are there seriously people like that walking around, folk who
are so emotionally invested in their laptops that they can’t
function properly, can’t look after themselves? It’s overloaded
with twee and self mocking and there’s a lovely twist but overall
it lacked something. I guess I just didn’t really care what
happened to anyone in it and no amount of warped timelines or musing on whether precognitive knowledge makes accepting the present easier was going to save the film from that.
(2.5/5)
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