Larry Larissa Linda
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Ryan McGlade
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, dark, darkly comic
A young woman who paints her nightmares, her unsettlingly older cousin, and a cramped apartment therapy group all crash into the same evening. The collisions are not gentle.
Picked by Felix
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Any short with the audacity to title itself after three characters and then actually deliver three full-blooded ones deserves a chance. Bonus points for putting a therapy group in the worst possible apartment.
McGlade collides a nightmare-painter, her wily older cousin, and an apartment therapy group — Safdie chamber-drama agitation with a Solondz misanthropic streak. The setup promises more than the description confirms.
A girl who paints her nightmares, her wily much-older cousin, and a small apartment-bound therapy group on collision course — that's a compressed Solondz scenario waiting to detonate. Light page copy means I'm grading the premise more than the execution, but McGlade has range based on his other titles in this set.