OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW FILM FESTIVAL Saturday March 10th at 9pm - Alamo Ritz 1 320 East 6th St. "a work of art that's both simultaneously hilarious and disturbing, Heidecker using the same skills he's honed in his TV and live comedy work, but to a terrifying degree...The Comedy is an ambitious, purposefully off-putting film, a dissection of where we find comedy and how we react to it, and a lampoon of the indie style... Swanson is wired like Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, swapping violence for wisecracks... Walking into The Comedy with an open-mind and curiosity of human ugliness may have you thinking about the movie for days afterward. “deserves tremendous respect for its clarity of vision... “A dark, determinedly abrasive study of a slovenly Brooklyn hipster … this singular Sundance entry is certain to split reactions every which way… Heidecker … “by far one of the most wildly inappropriate “Word on the street is you either love or you hate The Comedy -- an acerbic accounting of an over-privileged, aged Williamsburg hipster. I never knew what the main character, played perfectly by Tim Heidecker in his first dramatic role, was about to do -- not even for a second. For me, that was a major triumph of the film.” "An epic display of the over-privileged, eternally adolescent white American male behaving badly… Alverson is onto something culturally significant" A- “digs up something that affects more people than just Brooklynites, the lack of sincerity in our lives and this generation's reluctance of commitment. It's a meaty film, filled with ideas unobscured by any generic narrative string, a move that shows not only the confidence of the director but his respect of the audience. This is one that'll have people talking.” —Indiewire/The Playlist |
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