2 reviews
Cora left her girlfriend Justine in Portland Oregon, to go to L. A. to pursue her music career, while calling for an open relationship. (Early on, the has sex with a man she just met.) She decides to go home, and finds that Justine is living with a new girlfriend Riley. Cora's parents show up to celebrate Riley's birthday (the betrayal!). Cora takes their dog for a walk and loses it, and more chaos ensues. This includes going to an out-of-town pansexual orgy with strangers, to try to cheer herself up.
Cora is self-centered and self-obsessed. Her songs reflect that obsession. On the flight, she just plunks herself into a 1st-class seat, asks for a whole bottle of champagne, then refuses to show her ticket. Overall, she is plain unlikeable, and a late reveal of an earlier tragedy is too late for me to give her much sympathy.
Cora is self-centered and self-obsessed. Her songs reflect that obsession. On the flight, she just plunks herself into a 1st-class seat, asks for a whole bottle of champagne, then refuses to show her ticket. Overall, she is plain unlikeable, and a late reveal of an earlier tragedy is too late for me to give her much sympathy.
I really truly wanted to like this film - I knew nothing about it except that Meg Stalter was in it and I love her.
It bizarrely sets her up as a struggling musician who for the first half of this film I thought we were ironically meant to think that joke was on her cause she is terrible but then ten minutes before the end there is a massive exposition dump which means we're actually meant to think she is a good musician ...? Weird.
Most of the relationships feel under developed and wafer thin - the girlfriend she apparently loves - there is zero anything between them and then we in turn meant to care about her girlfriend's girlfriend ... who is just really really annoying.
There's a cute dog who I think were meant to believe our protagonist cares for but she loses it mid film and couldn't care less ... a plot device that doesn't nothing - goes nowhere and then just resolves itself before the credits role..
Ther is one moment in the film where our protagonist performs a song we've already heard and her new hippie friends join in with piano and it is a really great moment where the music gains life and our main character seems to have found a tribe but she quickly just discards them and ambles on to more nothingness
And then the credits roll
Don't waste your time.
It bizarrely sets her up as a struggling musician who for the first half of this film I thought we were ironically meant to think that joke was on her cause she is terrible but then ten minutes before the end there is a massive exposition dump which means we're actually meant to think she is a good musician ...? Weird.
Most of the relationships feel under developed and wafer thin - the girlfriend she apparently loves - there is zero anything between them and then we in turn meant to care about her girlfriend's girlfriend ... who is just really really annoying.
There's a cute dog who I think were meant to believe our protagonist cares for but she loses it mid film and couldn't care less ... a plot device that doesn't nothing - goes nowhere and then just resolves itself before the credits role..
Ther is one moment in the film where our protagonist performs a song we've already heard and her new hippie friends join in with piano and it is a really great moment where the music gains life and our main character seems to have found a tribe but she quickly just discards them and ambles on to more nothingness
And then the credits roll
Don't waste your time.
- itsadammatt-49713
- Aug 24, 2024
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