I spent last night in Philadelphia watching two movies during the first full night of the city's film festival. On Thursday evening, the festival opened up with this year's Sundance festival winner Like Crazy. Although I missed the opening night festivities, I'll be catching Like Crazy at a second showing on Sunday afternoon.
The film's I viewed yesterday were titled Shame and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Both were very solid features, although quite different in approach. Here's a short synopsis of both movie:
Shame starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan centers around around Brandon, a sex addict living in present day New York City. When Brandon's sister invites herself to stay with him for an undisclosed amount of time, the addict struggles to balance his normal and secret lives.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms is an Independent comedy by The Duplass Brothers (Cyrus) about a 30 year old slacker who still lives in his mother's home. Whilerunning a routine errand, Jeff hopes to finally piece together random events and discover his real life destiny.
At the conclusion of the festival, I will unveil my ratings for each film and give out my own personal awards. On today's schedule are Melancholia (for which Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress at this year's Cannes Festival) and Anonymous.
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