I'm one sucker for improvised films, but the only other film (series) that I'm fully aware of , other than My Effortless Brilliance, is the Lethal Weapon films. As long as it can pass the director, such as unscripted dialogue fits and works, it's okay with me. It's a helluva better than the so-called "non-scripted" reality series plaguing our TV screens.
In addition to the made-up dialogue, I also like the small, simple and powerful movies that the mumblecore films once were. In which this thoroughly resembles. It helps that it was filmed in/around Washington state that I favor. Add in likable, though flawed and rooted for characters, all around, I really liked this movie.
Writer Eric ('Fro Sean Nelson) coaxes best pal Dylan (Basil Harris) to bring over dinner one night using the telephone, indictating this isn't the first time the guys hung out together. But when Dylan does drop off dinner he informs Eric that his huge hair isn't the only thing that's expanded above his neck – basically calling him an a-hole friend, this ends a long relationship.
Fast forward two years, Eric's gotten even bigger with his books and his loneliness while he misses his friend. On a business trip, he decides to drop by, unexpectedly, to Dylan's remote cabin in an undisclosed (literally) wooded Washington state area, and he tries to pick up where they left off a couple of years prior as well as prior to Dylan's revolution that Eric's became a jerk as his writing career took off.
Dylan's obviously still hurt, but welcomes his friend with closed arms and the duo hangs out along with the movie's third (of only four) actor, Jim (Calvin Reeder) and hopefully Eric and Dylan can make up.
The movie's beautiful. It contains great landscapes, shots and overall nice cinematography. It's thoroughly real – it helps the actors were not following memorized lines. The two genuinely has chemistry and you root for a resolution and reasons behind the "heterosexual" breakup. Further, the score's nice, the production value, though obviously made as an independent feature, was well done.
As a slow-moving, but real-life account of friendship-lost, with humorous and authentic words coming from what would be a tense and broken male-to-male/non-sexual relationship, I will thoroughly recommend this movie.
In addition to the made-up dialogue, I also like the small, simple and powerful movies that the mumblecore films once were. In which this thoroughly resembles. It helps that it was filmed in/around Washington state that I favor. Add in likable, though flawed and rooted for characters, all around, I really liked this movie.
Writer Eric ('Fro Sean Nelson) coaxes best pal Dylan (Basil Harris) to bring over dinner one night using the telephone, indictating this isn't the first time the guys hung out together. But when Dylan does drop off dinner he informs Eric that his huge hair isn't the only thing that's expanded above his neck – basically calling him an a-hole friend, this ends a long relationship.
Fast forward two years, Eric's gotten even bigger with his books and his loneliness while he misses his friend. On a business trip, he decides to drop by, unexpectedly, to Dylan's remote cabin in an undisclosed (literally) wooded Washington state area, and he tries to pick up where they left off a couple of years prior as well as prior to Dylan's revolution that Eric's became a jerk as his writing career took off.
Dylan's obviously still hurt, but welcomes his friend with closed arms and the duo hangs out along with the movie's third (of only four) actor, Jim (Calvin Reeder) and hopefully Eric and Dylan can make up.
The movie's beautiful. It contains great landscapes, shots and overall nice cinematography. It's thoroughly real – it helps the actors were not following memorized lines. The two genuinely has chemistry and you root for a resolution and reasons behind the "heterosexual" breakup. Further, the score's nice, the production value, though obviously made as an independent feature, was well done.
As a slow-moving, but real-life account of friendship-lost, with humorous and authentic words coming from what would be a tense and broken male-to-male/non-sexual relationship, I will thoroughly recommend this movie.