Tiny Furniture is the latest from filmmaking wunderkind and my new favourite gal Lena Dunham. The film begins when Aura arrives back at her New York home after finishing her studies at film school, her younger, gorgeous, smart, successful still in high school sister has taken over her room and she is feeling the pressure of getting a job and working out what she wants to do with her life. She has also recently been dumped and when seeking the companionship of a youtube sensation Aura is reunited with her childhood friend Charlotte whose life philosophy is to live as much as she can until her father no longer wants to support her and she is forced to do something. This film is wonderfully complex, honest and completely familiar to me (also a recent film school graduate back in the family home trying to find some direction in life). At the same time I felt a little like this film was trying a little too hard to be "cool", but I absolutely loved Charlotte, played beautifully by the gorgeous Jemima Kirke.
I jumped into the queue with my friend and boyfriend for the much anticipated debut feature from The IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade Submarine. Josh showed me the trailer for this film a bit over a year ago and I have been waiting with bated breath for it to arrive on our shores ever since, for if you watch the trailer you will be enticed by the quirkiness that makes up the kind of film I like to see. Oliver is a confident lovable loser who knows who he is, what he wants and how to get it, or so he thinks. This is a beautifully wonderful piece of cinema and literary adaptation. The characters are genuinely disconnected, bizarrely wonderful and awe-inspiring. The issues of the film screamed honesty and although it was quaint and quirky it was also full of perfectly imperfect people and relationships without the perfect ending, it was just unapologetic and true, which I didn't expect but which I loved. I wish I was as sure of myself as Oliver although I think he spends far too much of his time living inside his head and not in the real world. I can't wait for it to come out so I can see it again.
Pick of the day
Submarine, need I say more?
Surprise of the day
Tiny Furniture was surprisingly good. I have had Lena Dunham at the back of my mind since glancing her name in a "one to watch" article in Vanity Fair and I was pleasantly surprised when I finally got to see her work.
Film total so far
27
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