Film
Modern Love is Automatic
Cert:(adv 15)
Dir. Zach Clark
USA , 93 mins, 2009
Cast: Melodie Sisk, Maggie Ross, Carlos Bustamante, Diana Cherkas
The Short film
The Photocopier will screen before this film.
A delicious, deadpan comedy about what it means to be ‘normal’. Poker-faced nurse Lorraine (outstanding newcomer Melodie Sisk) takes on wet-behind-the-ears roommate Adrian after the departure of her dead-loss boyfriend. From Lorraine’s detached perspective, highlighted to hilarious effect here, the behaviour of ‘normal’ seems pretty curious. Lorraine watches nonplussed as ditzy colleagues coo over their boyfriends’ naff theatrics, or some guy on the bus leaves his dominatrix mag lying around. Meanwhile for Adrian, the penny never drops that her modelling career is going nowhere. Super-eager to make a name for herself, she’s dreamily oblivious to the sleaziness of making an honest buck. A movie about boredom, sex, lies and ersatz life for twentysomething Americans, quizzical of tone, small of budget - so far, so familiar... But there’s much to distinguish Modern Love… very far from the pack, not least the statuesque Sisk, who nails the expressionless comedy to marvellous effect. Crisply designed and edited, this is stylish, wry entertainment from a very smart team.
Courtesy of Zach Clark
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- Fish Eyes
- New Muslim Cool
- Perpetuum Mobile
- And Then Came Lola
- Around a Small Mountain
- Crying with Laughter
- Vincere
- Perpetuum Mobile
- Crying with Laughter
- The Man Who Would Be Polka King
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- Animal Heart
- Presumed Guilty
- Splinters
- Donkey
- Presumed Guilty
- The Woman with the 5 Elephants
- Dogtooth
- Highly Strung
- Donkey
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- The Unworthy
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- Dogtooth
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- The Search
- Terrorism Considered as One of the
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- Park Shanghai
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- Deep in the Valley
- Paradise
- Elkland
- The Blacks
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- Valhalla Rising
- Valhalla Rising
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- Fish Eyes
- Chip on My Shoulder: The Cautionary
- Whip It
- Green Waters
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