Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Andrew Bujalski.
Cast: Kate Dollenmayer, Christian Rudder, Andrew Bujalski
Description: Appealingly smart and casual indie full of people talking and acting like they do in real life. Kate Dollenmayer is a likeable heroine, a postgrad seeking direction in a world full of confusing signposts. It's a triumph of brain over budget.
Country: US. 2002. 90mins
Funny Ha Ha received rave reviews from many American critics
Here's a tale of young middle-class Americans who find relationships difficult and sentences even more troubling to complete.
Nearly everyone in this film, directed by Andrew Bujalski, finds it hard to express themselves, especially when trying for either romance or employment.
The central character is 23-year-old postgraduate Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) who is first seen being refused in a tattoo parlour because she is drunk.
Thereafter she gets a deadend filing job and attracts the attention of an awkward office temp but fancies a friend who has just split from his girl.
The film, which was made in 2002 but is only being released in the UK now, made a number of critics' Top 10 lists in the US and on the festival circuit.
In a resolutely minor key and clearly made for practically nothing, no doubt it is pretty accurate in its summation of a certain type of American youth, but it risks making everybody seem terribly boring in the process.
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