Cutie indie, just boring enough not to rise above its ambition

Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2020)

Ah Indies done by brainerds who rever the verbose French New Wave, the intellectual misfits at a loss to communicate with others, especially the other sex. Too bad we are only offered this type of character, acting as a decoy for the screenwriter's psychoanalysis, and thus get a boring train of self-lamentation, more moaning and perennial inability to pull oneself by one's bootstraps.
Bring in a good cast, fine production values (as opposed to erratic camera work and post-modernist settings), spread it all over by cutting back and forth in the timeline and bam, you get a cutesy indie. As usual this might have be an excellent short... provided the main character was beefed up with some self deprecating humor for instance.