The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed

Directed by Joanna Arnow | 88 minutes | 18+ | Victorian Premiere

6.30pm, Saturday, 21st September | Buy Pass

Can you just tell me what to do?

A mosaic-style comedy following the adrift life of Ann (played by director Joanna Arnow) as time passes in her various relationships with men, particularly her long-term casual BDSM relationship, as well as her low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. Drifting between inertia and stagnation, honesty and humiliation, Ann finds glimmers of hope in her odd, passive life.

WHY YOU SHOULD SEE THIS FILM: A decade on from her debut auto-documentary featurette I Hate Myself :), Joanna Arnow returns with a portrait of woman finding her way in life through a series of deadpan dialogues, uncomfortable acts of self-imposed humiliation and moments of raw vulnerability. While casting herself in a number of wryly funny, bracingly awkward and sexually explicit scenarios, Arnow also includes her own parents in the film as themselves, returning to them often for a touch of auto-biographical honesty and discomfort. (c. Golden Age Cinema and Bar)

"The do’s, don’t’s and don’t-even-go-there’s of contemporary dating (...) rarely get dissected quite so tartly, or with such weirdly impassive wit." - - Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily

Country: USA
Year: 2023
Language: English