The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
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“Can you just tell me what you want me to do?”
Overview
A mosaic-style comedy following the adrift life of Ann (played by director Joanna Arnow) as time passes in her various relationships with men, particularly her long-term casual BDSM relationship, as well as her low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. Drifting between inertia and stagnation, honesty and humiliation, Ann finds glimmers of hope in her odd, passive life.
“Arnow’s poignant and original performance is a double masterwork of acting and directing.”
“The do’s, don’t’s and don’t-even-go-there’s of contemporary dating (...) rarely get dissected quite so tartly, or with such weirdly impassive wit”
“It’s the unique rhythm of the way that this film is written and cut that elevates it beyond a standard millennial malaise movie.”
Why You Should See This Film
A decade on from her debut auto-documentary featurette I Hate Myself :), Joanna Arnow returns with a portrait of woman finding her way in life through a series of deadpan dialogues, uncomfortable acts of self-imposed humiliation and moments of raw vulnerability. While casting herself in a number of wryly funny, bracingly awkward and sexually explicit scenarios, Arnow also includes her own parents in the film as themselves, returning to them often for a touch of auto-biographical honesty and discomfort.
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