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50Levy's innovative movie should appeal to mumblecore fans while perplexing mainstream audiences.
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38It's a shaky-cam meander through an unconvincing relationship, with detours considering the process of making the film. At 91 minutes, it seems very long.
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Jun 23, 201133Infuriatingly navel-gazing and insubstantial.
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Jul 14, 201130Indie moviemaking reaches some kind of awful zenith of self-indulgence in this scriptless drama, entirely improvised and shot on cellphones.
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30Though the title hints at a tale of infatuation, Levy sheds little light on interpersonal conflict or why we're such an addictively self-documenting modern society.
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30The real problem here, though, is that noting the it's-all-about-me nature of modern life already feels like a point that no longer needs making. Yeah, we're self-absorbed and shallow; so what else is new?
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20Tedious enough to serve as a cautionary example of the pitfalls of DIY filmmaking.
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20Self-aware narcissism has rarely been this unjustified-or insufferable.
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20It is part of the film's premise that the movies are only a pretext to serve personal needs. Given how little the murky finished product offers an outside audience, this comes across all too convincingly.
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12David Guy Levy's movie foregrounds the potential ugliness of modern technology in order to comment on it. But that doesn't make the film's visuals any less hideous.
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Jun 23, 201110"Just to document yourself being bored is very boring," Enci says at one point. It's one moment of fiction here that rings all too true.
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Jun 24, 20110For more experienced viewers, the tired terrain is badly shot and haphazardly assembled into an audience-testing feature that appears to have no idea how unlikable or unprovocative it is.