The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

I saw this movie at the New York Film Festival and it had me cracking up. So completely out of the box, sharp, honest and hilarious. I loved the visual style juxtaposed with the frank sexual content - this felt like the female gaze at work. I've never seen a movie like this and truly enjoyed.

It follows Anne (Joanna Arnow), a Brooklyn woman in an unfulfilling, long term bdsm relationship (which bears a hilarious resemblence to her daytime identity as low level corporate drone) as she navigates her family, friendship and attempts at "vanilla" dating.

Would recommend if you like deadpan humor & appreciate nuanced characters.

5 minutes in the movie, you get tired of the soulless aesthetic that is presumed to be cool but is just straight ugly and boring, let alone the 'story', which is non-existent. Apparently the director draws comics. She should stick to it as she failed to understand that, unless your name is Ozu, movies are something else than just static shots with heads talking. Sadly, this movie is totally devoid of humor, too, unless the deadpan pimply face of the lead actress, who is also the director, is thought of as 'humor'. Ultimately, the movie's self-complacency often devolves into crass caricature.

No wonder they say the industry is in decline. I read that the producer got a major award for it. Well, as long as they keep congratulating each other for mediocrities such as this, it will keep declining. It wouldn't be a big deal if this kind of self-satisfied millennial production did not bring us Trump.

What a surprise! The second film by very talented Joanna Arnow (she edited, wrote, directed, and starred in the film) is a symphony of ambient shame, with movements centred on the different men that Ann, the protagonist, has varied-length and ambivalent relationships with. She manages to hit a range of painful notes in these movements, from ritualised abjection of sensual humiliation to cutting corporate indignities.

Extremely original, astute, truthful, and humorous. I adored how the openly sexual material contrasted with the visual aesthetic; it gave me the impression of the female gaze in action. In over 50 years of watching movies and writing reviews it is time to say: I've never seen a movie like this and I truly enjoyed it. Check it out if you enjoy subtle character development and deadpan humour...

From the second the fil starts to the closing credits, you'll laugh so hard you'll have a hard time catching your breath. It's just non-stop action, one-liners, and zingers coming at you. DUCK! Here comes another one! Wow! What an amazing movie-going experience!

Okay, I lied. In reality, I had to qquit this dreadful film after about 30 minutes. It was going absolutely no where. I think a better title for the film would be: "The feeling that something is going to actually happen has passed." Yes, it's that boring. Naturaly Rotten Tomatoes gave it a high rating. Something like an 86. But that was the critic's rating. The viewer rating was in the mid 20s. Trust the viewer's rating on this one. It reminded me of a film by that Greek fella where absolutely nothing happens for hours on end.

If you need something to put you to seep, forget the Melanonin or the Z-Quil. Just put this movie on and you'll be fast asleep in no time flat!

The worst movie I've seen in years! There wasn't a single character I cared about at all. The script is almost non-existent. There are many, many, minutes of silence with no real activity on screen. Everyone in this movie seemed like they were ill, half asleep or just had totally boring. Nobody & nothing made any actual sense.

Not sure what equipment they used to make this movie but I've seen better video quality taken with a cellphone. And there was often obnoxious background noise. Not natural but maybe camera noise? Terrible.

The BDSM was more about strange relationships than actual BDSM. I know enough that It's usually not the submissive that tells the Master what they want. It was more just the main character wanting someone to be assertive in sex. The sex scenes here are not even softcore BTW.

Then there's the dialogue. An example is the Mother says: It's getting dark and it's 7:30. Ann says: Yes, I know. Mother: Tomorrow it will be 7:29. That's an entire scene. Hopefully no one was paid for writing this.

Nothing was funny. Nothing was dramatic. Nothing was exciting. Nothing was interesting. Movies like this one is why IMDB should allow Zero stars out of ten. One is too generous.