THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED Trailer (2024) Joanna Arnow, Comedy Movie

THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED Trailer (2024) Joanna Arnow, Comedy Movie

THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED Trailer (2024) Joanna Arnow, Comedy Movie
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Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” is, among many other things, an impressively edited film, even though there aren’t a lot of whizz-bang transitions, tangents bouncing back and forth in time, or sharply atomized action stitched together into a crescendo. There isn’t even really a B story.

But “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” sets an even higher level of difficulty for itself. The film is a series of glimpses into the life of a millennial named Ann (Joanna Arnow) over the course of a year, dealing with no life-and-death issues but just life issues: a frustrating job, the quirks of her family, dating, and a set of BDSM relationships with doms across New York City.

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The structure of the film feels gentle and unabrasive. There’s a seasonal progression of the film’s chapters from spring to winter and back again. The chapters themselves are titled by the relationship that Ann is in during each of them. But each chapter is full of everything she has going on in her life, as well as a focused eye on all the mundanities that make all lives a little absurd. But constructing a story out of gently comedic scenes is hard.

Timing is essential in comedy, not just in every scene of Arnow’s film, but in the order of the scenes she presents of Ann’s life. And Arnow’s post process was, appropriately, a very detailed one. She shot a lot more than ended up in the finished film. “As a person making a comedy, I feel like it’s part of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to not leave people feeling like they wish it was shorter,” Arnow told IndieWire on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast.

Arnow utilized feedback from rough cut screenings, which the “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” team did pretty often throughout the edit. “I really wanted to get a variety of people and perspectives, even though the screening room fit only about 10 or 12 or 13 people. But I would try and get some people who didn’t know me at all or weren’t familiar with my work — which is tricky being the person doing the inviting,” Arnow said.

It’s also essential because Arnow’s film is autofiction, taking inspiration from her real life. Arnow likes the label in order to be upfront about how much of the story is coming from her, “but the intent of this film isn’t to tell a truthful story. I’m not trying to portray my life or anyone in any accurate way,” Arnow said.

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What matters is the emotional accuracy, whether it’s the expression on Ann’s face as she watches her mother and father perform a rendition of “Solidarity Forever” while on vacation or the perfectly composed long shot of Ann on a rooftop in a “fuck pig” suit, masturbating with bells on. In order to get at the issues of timing, emotion, and how each chapter vibed off the others, Arnow showed the film to friends, to college students at the New School, and to fellow members of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

“I like to keep it pretty basic, just asking people what was working, what was not working, what was boring, where they felt it was slow, what they might like to see more of,” Arnow said. “You can pay attention to the film more when you’ve seen it so many times with other bodies in the room. ”

Only some of those bodies need to be filmmakers, too. “Sometimes filmmakers just want to tell you how to make the film that they would want to make. Or maybe sometimes they like to show off their knowledge,” Arnow said. “But I was also really grateful for all the filmmaker feedback in the process. It took just a big variety of people.”

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TOP OF THE LINE
Arnow's film emphasizes the importance of uplifting smaller artists for unique perspectives in indie cinema.
The protagonist, Ann, navigates loneliness, intimate relationships, and normalization of sexuality, anchoring the film's comedy.
Through prolonged silences and a unique visual style, the film's direction isolates Ann and captivates viewers with its unobtrusive approach.
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed was written, directed, and stars Joanna Arnow, and it's clear from the beginning that though this is her world, her character is merely passing through it. Arnow plays Ann, a 30-something millennial living in New York City. However, this version lacks the glitz and glamour of shows like Sex and the City, delivering an honesty akin to Girls while standing completely on its own. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Past is rooted in an unforgiving reality that reminds the audience to laugh at moments of tragedy.

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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed is a comedy film written, directed, starring, and edited by Joanna Arnow. The film centers on a middle-age woman who juggles her life between her low-level corporate job, Jewish family, and her long-term BDSM relationship.

Pros
The film's dialogue-free style is very intimate
Joanna Arnow easily navigates the awkwardness of sex
The film has its own flair and sense of comedy
Cons
It's not for everyone, but it doesn't have to be
Indie cinema has been corrupted in recent years, as has the concept of a truly low-budget movie. However, Arnow's film reminds us that the industry desperately needs to uplift the voices of smaller artists early in their careers. It's these artists that offer the most unique perspectives and expose us to new worlds. Throughout the film, Arnow takes us on a quiet odyssey that captures the search for real intimacy, as Ann struggles to act on her desires in all parts of her life.

Joanna Arnow Understands What It's Like To Be Alone
But she doesn't know what to do about it

Billed as a comedy, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed is undoubtedly hilarious, but the root of that comedy is the inescapable feeling of being alone. Ann has little dialogue for the first half of the film. She silently takes in the insults and compliments from those around her. Allen (Scott Cohen) and Chris (Babak Tafti) are the male leads in her life, and while they couldn't be more different, they each leave something to be desired. On paper, Chris is the person that life says she should end up with, but it's rarely that simple.

Ann might be uncomfortable in many parts of her life, but she's willing to try anything to find what she's looking for, and doesn't pass judgment on her efforts, or anyone else's. Though the windows we get into Ann's life are few and far between, they're still enough to glean the trajectory of her life, and experience time passing as she does. The film is broken up into sections, all titled with the names of the men she's seeing. This point is driven home by how long it takes before we hear a character speak her name.

Arnow flawlessly normalizes the awkwardness and discomfort that can accompany sex while poking fun at the fact that no matter what an individual is into, it's always going to be foreign to someone else.

This film is not for everyone, and the prolonged nudity and depictions of BDSM might not immediately convince every audience member that the story is for them. However, this window into someone's life is not different from any other depiction and exploration of sexuality onscreen. Arnow flawlessly normalizes the awkwardness and discomfort that can accompany sex while poking fun at the fact that no matter what an individual is into, it's always going to be foreign to someone else. It's not exactly about the acts themselves, but the sense of intimacy they create.

While the men Ann briefly lets into her life play a prominent role in the film, her parents and sister (Alysia Reiner) shouldn't be overlooked as tremendous characters that indicate the life Ann is living when the cameras are off. Ann's parents are played by Arnow's real mother and father, which lends itself to the documentary influences on the film. Arnow has worked in autofiction and documentary in the past, which comes through and creates a strong blend of genre styles. Ann’s time with her parents almost feels more intimate than when she takes her clothes off.

The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
R
Comedy
Director
Joanna Arnow
Release Date
April 26, 2024
Studio(s)
Magnetic Labs , Ravenser Odd , Nice Dissolve
Distributor(s)
Magnolia Pictures
Writers
Joanna Arnow
Cast
Joanna Arnow , Scott Cohen , Babak Tafti , Michael Cyril Creighton , Alysia Reiner , Keith Poulson , Peter Vack
Runtime
87 Minutes
Main Genre
Comedy
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More Is Said In The Movie's Silences Than Its Dialogue
It makes each line in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed all the more poignant
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed loosely uses vignettes and the visual style highlights its prolonged silences. Viewers should stick around through the end of the credits, as it holds on the longest take of the movie with two characters sitting in complete silence. Overall, the takes are long, the camera remains largely stationary, and the frames are wide enough to feel the disconnect between Ann and her surroundings. It's a quiet and unobtrusive style of direction, but it's intentional in its isolation of Ann, as well as the audience.

Though the setting and story of The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed are reminiscent of movies and shows that we have seen before, it's difficult to draw comparisons to anything preexisting. Arnow isn't debilitated with garden variety self-consciousness. This objectivity allows the film to be self-aware in a way that doesn't feel tired and overwrought with too many tongue-in-cheek references and exhausting winks at the camera. There are moments when it's hard to watch Ann’s lonely world, as it can get all too familiar, but once she’s invited us in, it’s hard to look away.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed will be in select theaters on April 26.
Joanna Arnow's feature debut The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed is a sharply hilarious comedy, tackling the absurdities of relationships and everyday life.
Ann's personal journey explores shifting desires, settling into new routines, and quietly tumultuous times.
The film's ending is subtly sidesplitting and melancholic, with an unexpectedly revealing final joke.
When watching The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, the brilliant comedy from writer-director Joanna Arnow in which she also stars, both comedy and tragedy are expertly wielded in her hands. Not only is Arnow's debut feature perfectly attuned to the often mundane rhythms of life in New York, but it also sees her giving a fearless central performance. She gives everything to the humble film and the result is a comedic gem that is all its own. There is never a single moment where it feels like she or the film feels like it is even remotely compromising on the portrait being painted. Forget Fifty Shades of Grey, this is the film about BDSM for our time that is right up there with the recent Sanctuary.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Comedy
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Release Date
April 26, 2024
Director
Joanna Arnow
Cast
Joanna Arnow , Scott Cohen , Babak Tafti , Parish Bradley
Runtime
87 minutes
Main Genre
Comedy
Writers
Joanna Arnow
What makes it a cut above is how Arnow weaves the complicated absurdities and relationships into the fabric of everyday life. We see the indignity of work where those in charge remain woefully out of touch with the realities of their industries just as we observe how Ann is willing to keep going back to a relationship where she is treated awfully if it represents what could be a familliar escape from everything else. It is frequently sad, consistently silly, and increasingly somber all at once.

What Is 'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed' About?
This begins with Arnow’s naked Ann as she tries to get the attention of a man who is sleeping (or at least pretending to) next to her. Despite all her efforts, including talking dirty to him and humping against his body, Allen (Scott Cohen) can’t even be bothered to give her a second thought. How much of this is part of their dominant and submissive relationship versus him just being an asshole is the central tension that the film begins to excavate. As we get immersed in Ann’s painfully relatable day-to-day life, mostly consisting of strained family interactions, the most uniquely disgusting microwave meals you’ve ever seen, and a banal workplace overseen by incompetent management, the more humorously horrifying reality sets in that this relationship is the thing that may just be the bright spot in her life.

This has been going on for a decade with neither knowing much about the other. That Allen continually forgets (or pretends to forget) where she went to college elicits an effective sense of unease and discomfort even as Ann remains seemingly unperturbed by it all. At the same time, she bares both body and soul as we get to know her life so deeply that it feels like an epic novel has almost been condensed into a tight feature that runs under ninety minutes. It can all feel fleeting, but that is also the film’s greatest achievement. Is life not just a series of moments embarrassing, arousing, painful, funny, and sad before we all die? And, just as importantly, what would it be like to recreate that classic scene from the Titanic?

The way Arnow, who also serves as editor on the film, stitches this all together is perfection. Everything from the pacing to the precise moment when she cuts mines plenty of unexpected jokes and humor as various scenes come crashing into each other. While it would not be entirely correct to call any of the individual parts vignettes, they all pack their own individual strengths that then come together into a magnificent whole. As Ann drifts away from Allen to pursue other sexual relationships, we get snapshots of the variety of people and personalities seeking submissives. Some of these people are sweet while most are just strange. However, most importantly, never once does the film feel like it is shaming anyone or capturing their relationships as something inherently ridiculous. Each one of them is painfully human.

'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed' Is a Magnificent Feature Deubt
Arnow teases out some great punchlines, from when a boomer boss talks inanely about the iPhone to when Ann’s mother tells her to not forget about bringing a banana on a trip, which are so oddly authentic it almost hurts. It ensures that amidst all the stellar jokes is an almost profound sense of both a place and people. Sure, there are sex gags galore that involve everything from pig noses to virtual masturbating. The key is that all of these things go hand in hand with the unendingly funny though no less incisive ideas that Arnow is playing around with. In every awkward encounter, something increasingly astounding is sneaking up on you.

The key is that each of these is deeply tied up in the personal journey of Ann as she tries to piece together what it is that she wants. There is no grand moment where she gives a speech about finally knowing how to live her life to the fullest. Instead, she seeks out a more romantic connection that she is hoping can also fulfill her desire to be a submissive. It’s this moment when the film shifts gears just a bit, slowing down from the rapid succession of encounters she was having before, in a way that could easily throw some those who had gotten used to its rhythms. This is no accident as it is about making us feel how a shift in life after years of settling into a routine, no matter how painful, can itself be a quietly tumultuous time.

Without going too far into the ending or a single interpretation, as Arnow’s vision is bursting with a variety of meanings to be discovered on multiple watches, there is a moment near the conclusion where a character in the film says a slightly different version of its title to Ann. That her response is the experience’s most revealing and almost entirely the opposite of what was being said provides one last subtly sidesplitting joke. This is followed by Arnow pulling off one more devastating cut that makes you almost want to shout as it rips us right back to how we began the film. In the end, Ann ends up embodying the title without even fully realizing it. It makes for a final moment of melancholy where all you can do is lay back and see the next decade stretching before her once more. What a frighteningly funny sight it is.

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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
REVIEW
Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed is a magnificent feature debut and the funniest films of the year thus far.

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Pros
Arnow gives a fearless central performance, baring both body and soul at every turn.
In addition to being both writer and director, Arnow does a spectacular job of editing the film's already great scene into a wonderful whole.
The ending ties all this together wonderfully, bringing the film full circle and providing one last devastating punchline.
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed comes to select theaters in the U.S. starting April 26 before expanding. Click below for showtimes near you.

Director/actress Joanna Arnow bares all for BDSM millennial dramedy “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.”

The filmmaker directs and stars in the feature that follows 30-something New Yorker Ann (Arnow) as she navigates casual BDSM relationships, a mindless corporate job, and her overbearing Jewish family. The trailer shows Arnow seeking purpose through ball gags and pig costumes as she dates a slew of neurotic men who have ever-increasing eccentric erotic desires.

“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” debuted at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight program, and went on to screen at TIFF and NYFF. The feature is executive produced by “Red Rocket” auteur Sean Baker, and co-stars Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Alysia Reiner, Peter Vack, and Parish Bradley.

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Arnow also edited “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.” The feature is her follow-up to 2013’s “I hate myself :)” about a documentary filmmaker enduring a toxic relationship.

IndieWire Film Editor Ryan Lattanzio wrote that at first glance, Arnow’s unflinching performance while turning the camera back onto herself recalls, on the surface, Lena Dunham and Miranda July’s self-reflexive filmographies. However, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” proves to be a quieter millennial statement against feeling anonymous or unseen, even in the most intimate of spaces.

“There is undoubtedly a level of autofiction going on here on Arnow’s part as she uses the mosaic structure of a series of BDSM encounters to interrogate the alienating aspects of millennial life,” IndieWire wrote. “(One of the film’s relatably hilarious moments that targets a very specific Gen Y angst comes when Ann goes on a family vacation, and her mom is stunned she has to work remotely throughout the trip.) It’s also clear that Arnow wants to present a picture of a woman in a BDSM relationship who has agency and ownership of the situation rather than as a passive participant. [With] ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ … Arnow’s voice is distinctive, shrewd, and spiky enough to keep it afloat.”

“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” premieres April 26 in theaters from Magnolia Pictures. Check out the trailer below and read the IndieWire review here.

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There’s a nice trio of specialty films to highlight this weekend from Joanna Arnow, Uberto Pasolini and Caitlin Cronenberg‘s feature directorial debut.

Joanna Arnow’s micro-budget comedy The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed world premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. It follows a thirtysomething New York woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. Arnow writes, directs and stars. And that’s BDSM, as in bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism.

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The helmer is thrilled to see her feature (after 2017’s i hate myself :), and a handful of well-received shorts) launch a theatrical run, with Magnolia distributing. “That’s how I dream of my movies being seen,” Arnow tells Deadline. “It’s also so important to see comedies (on the big screen) Shared laughter with strangers is quite beautiful and healing in a way.”

The film has strong reviews. Millennial, raw and cringey are words that come up. Asked about that, she says she finds it “sort of reductive and diminishing” — and not all that uncommon for female filmmakers.

“I think there’s a kind of coded language that is perhaps, unintentionally, used sometimes when describing films that women make about sexuality,” she says. “There’s a lot of words like ‘raw,’ and ‘cringe’ … whereas for a male director, instead, ‘raw might be ‘powerful’, or instead of ‘cringy’, it might be ‘outsider art’.”

She’s compared to Lena Dunham (Girls), “a director I quite admire.” But, “it’s often, you know, a ‘We have to compare the women to each other’ kind of situation.” Her work is “trailblazing. But yeah, I imagine she would agree that the comparisons can, you know, be reductive.”

Arnow lives in Brooklyn and works as a cinematographer and editor. She has a few film projects in development she’s been taking around. The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Past co-stars Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls), Babak Tafti (Billions), Alysia Reiner (Orange is the New Black), and Michael Cyril Creighton (Only Murders In the Building). Executive produced by Sean Baker. It opens at the IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center (Q&As all weekend) with a limited rollout to follow.

Other limited openings: Uberto Pasolini’s Nowhere Special gets a long-awaited release Stateside from Cohen Media Group. The Full Monty producer and director of Still Life explores key questions of parenthood, children and family starring BAFTA-nominated British actor James Norton (Bob Marley: One Love, Little Women, Happy Valley) in a breakout role. The film — which premiered at Venice in 2020 — is scoring a notable 100% with critics and 99% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. See Deadline review.

Norton is a single, working-class father of an adored four-year-old, Michael, BIFA-nominated Daniel Lamont. When John is given only a few months left to live, he starts a search for a new, perfect family for his son. Initially certain of what he is looking for, John gradually abandons his early convictions, overwhelmed by doubts. How can he judge a family from a brief encounter? Does he know his own child well enough to make this choice for him? As he struggles for answers, he accepts the help of a young social worker, opening himself to solutions he would never have considered.

Much of the film’s power of lies in the incredible chemistry of the two lead actors, the man and the boy.

Opening in four theaters in NY and LA, expands to 30 locations in top ten markets next week.

CMG acquire Nowhere Special out of Venice and had to shelve the theatrical release twice, for Covid, and the Hollywood strikes last year.

Pasolini, who is London-based, tells Deadline the idea was sparked by an newspaper article he read about a young father searching for a home for his son. He did months of interviews with adoption agencies, social services, families, and the people who help them face with critical decisions. And, “I put in what I remember about bringing up three little girls,” he tells Deadline.

He’s so glad to finally get it on screens here. “It opened literally in the middle of Covid [in the UK]. And the same with Italy. I think I think these guys had the right idea to wait,” he said of CMG.

IFC Films presents Caitlin Cronenberg’s directorial debut, sci-fi environmental mystery thriller Humane, in 56 theaters including Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan and Alamo Drafthouse Downtown LA. The film unspools over a single day, months after a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth’s population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman has invited his grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation’s new euthanasia program. But the plan goes horribly awry.

Starts Jay Baruchel (This Is The End), Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie), Sebastian Chacon (Emergency), Alanna Bale (Sort Of, Cardinal) and Sirena Gulamgaus (Transplant). Written by Michael Sparaga.

The director, a celebrity portraitist, grew up on the sets of Canada’s most iconic filmmaker – her father David Cronenberg – and started directing with music videos and short films including The Endings (2018) and The Death of David Cronenberg (2021).
When we are introduced to Jewish thirtysomething Ann at the start of writer-director-star Joanna Arnow’s feature debut “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” she has never been in a conventional relationship. She engages in submissive sexual dynamics with “sexfriends” and seems dimly uneasy that the most longstanding of these, with Allen (Scott Cohen), is now clocking in at around a decade, with neither one of them knowing very much about the other. She asks him about himself; it turns out he’s a Zionist. She rolls away from him.

The anthropologist David Graeber has analyzed the harm caused to society and individuals by the existence of meaningless so-called “bullshit jobs.” Ann is employed in a classic example of one of these: the objectives are hazy, the prospects limited; she is given an award for having worked in her office for one year and has to tell them it’s actually been over three years — and perhaps even worse, she has to go to meetings and listen to Boomers say things like, “the iPhone was invented.”

Ann’s mother (Barbara Weiserbs, Arnow’s actual mother) specializes in the kind of small talk that is essential well-meant, but represents such a masterpiece of pointlessness that it’s hard not to escape the suspicion she could be trolling or playing some elaborate parlor game. The alternative is that a real live human adult is really, genuinely, asking whether you would like to take a banana with you on the train tomorrow, and if yes would you like to put it in your bag now. Without wanting to throw anybody’s mother under the bus here, it all feels painfully relatable.

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These three respective strands — sexual, professional, familial — are the major prisms through which we view Ann’s life. In casting herself as Ann, Arnow the director is able to ask for an unusual degree of exposure from her lead actor, both physically (she is naked for a high proportion of the runtime) and psychologically (Ann is tough but vulnerable, often blank and affectless while somehow simultaneously conveying intriguing depth). In one scene, she wears a ball gag, forcing her mouth open in a silent O, and it’s hard to decide whether she looks more like she’s screaming or yawning — and really, that’s about right; her attitude to life feels like somebody panicking in slow motion but who is too switched off to really fully commit to their own existential crisis.

Apart from Arnow’s lead performance, the other major star in this film is the editing, also by Arnow. “Brilliantly edited” could risk sounding like faint praise, the kind of comment people reach for when they’re struggling to find a polite thing to say about a film they didn’t like much. But it’s the unique rhythm of the way that this film is written and cut that elevates it beyond a standard millennial malaise movie. Multiple scenes have the structure of a really well-constructed one or two panel comic (Arnow also has talent in this area, posting witty line drawings on her Instagram account). So many scenes are incredibly brief and totally standalone. Setup, line, punchline. Or just setup and punchline. Sometimes the punchline is an anti-punchline, a deflationary moment that brutally punctures the scene.

Taken as a whole, the film paints a brilliantly sardonic portrait of Ann’s life, but so many individual scenes could play as stand-alone short films — and not the kind of big, baggy shorts that go on for half an hour and are really imitations of the rhythm and form of a feature. Arnow’s splinters of life owe something to the feel of deadpan Vines, TikToks or Instagram stories, where everything extraneous has been paired away, and yet what is really clever here is that this effect is achieved without feeling hectic or like a music video — the pacing is very relaxed and the camera itself is usually static with very few cuts within the scene itself. The effect is self-contained but crucially never choppy.

You would hope that this is the kind of film that would lead to fame and fortune for Arnow, although it’s also such a perfect example of what can be achieved on a low budget with modest production values that from a strictly creative point of view, material success feels almost irrelevant. But from the wider perspective of it being a good and just thing when obvious talent is rewarded with actual money and not just good reviews, fingers crossed that funders are lining up to commission her.

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Reviewed at the Cannes Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight, May. 19, 2023. Running time: 88 MIN.
Production: A Magnolia Pictures release of a Loco Films presentation of a Ravenser Odd, Magnetic Labs, Nice Dissolve production. (World sales: Loco Films, Paris.) Producers: Graham Swon, Pierce Varous. Executive producers: Sean Baker, Adam Mirels, Robert Mirels.
Crew: Director: Joanna Arnow. Screenplay: Joanna Arnow. Camera: Barton Cortright. Editor: Joanna Arnow. Music: Robinson Senpauroca.
With: Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Joanna Arnow, Alysia Reiner, Peter Vack, Parish Bradley, Michael Cyril Creighton, Barbara Weiserbs, David Arnow.