Reviews

The main character is a handsome man who has lots of (unprotected!) sex with a ton of women and gets involved in little shootouts.

While many kids movies have increasingly come to lean on meta-jokes, this is a film that takes a very self-aware approach to its animation and structure, but still carves out a meaningful emotional arc for all of its main characters.

A nurse named Mariana (Ines de Medeiros) is tasked with accompanying a comatose worker named Leao (Isaach de Bankhole) back to his home in Cape Verde.

I liked Carstensen's performance as Margot, and I appreciated the way that the film portrayed and developed the relationship between Margot, her husband, and her in-laws.

I actually felt that the film's strongest point was that final sequence (despite me poking a bit of fun at it), because we really get a window into Hans' mental state.

On top of which, it also clashes a bit thematically with another big idea in the film, which is Hunter's inability to trust having come from an abusive background.

Buono and de Bankhole have good chemistry with each other, which is probably the saving grace of the entire film.

A film director is in town for a film festival at a local university, but he arrives a day early and must kill time in town.

The best aspect of the film is simply that each character feels very alive and as if they have a point of view.

The writing feels a bit exaggerated at times, and I wasn't entirely sold on the chemistry between the two characters.