SummaryWhen pieces of a jigsaw puzzle arrive daily in the mail, a neurotic couple’s curiosity devolves into an obsession that comically unravels their world, disconnecting them from reality and jeopardizing their fragile relationship.
SummaryWhen pieces of a jigsaw puzzle arrive daily in the mail, a neurotic couple’s curiosity devolves into an obsession that comically unravels their world, disconnecting them from reality and jeopardizing their fragile relationship.
Ultimately a sweet, simple ode to the virtues of honesty and commitment in a relationship, Arlo & Julie may be a trifle at day’s end, but it’s a deft and pleasurable one — steeped in affection for its characters, not too in love with its own quirkiness, and marked by a nice retro flavor apparent in the jazz records Arlo and Julie play (which make up most of the score) and the playful iris shots used as scene transitions throughout.
All told, it’s a likably misfit little movie, even if you can imagine it better suited as a lengthy short film or as a superior installment on one of those midcentury television playhouse series.