Programmer at Segla. I read the submissions inbox in the morning and watch what survives at night. I grew up in a town with one screen and I have never really recovered. My favourite part of the job is the second film by someone.
Two understudies who never go on, waiting in a basement dressing room for eight months. It is a workplace comedy where the work never happens, which is a good enough engine for four seasons. The cold open is the best thing she has made. I laughed out loud twice, and I watch these for a living.
The joke I keep repeating to people is the one about the shoes, and I have ruined it every time, which is how you know it is built properly. Fourteen minutes, one Saturday, one boy who wants to be taken seriously by a man who cannot be bothered to take anything seriously. The last exchange lands so lightly you almost miss that it is the whole point of the film.
I have lived here eleven years and this is the first film that got the heat right. Not the light, the heat. Everyone is slightly damp and slightly annoyed and nobody mentions it. The bit where he tries to return the ring and the shop is closed for a private event is the funniest thing I saw last year.
