Woman are Mean
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Doron Max Hagay
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, melancholic
A man-child named Greg stomps around rainy Brooklyn airing grievances about his wife — chiefly her refusal to let him hang posters — until a riverside moment forces him to wonder if maybe, just maybe, the problem is him.
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Title's a trap and the film knows it. Watching a self-pitying schlub indict the women in his life until the East River reflects something he can't unsee — that's the good stuff.
A wet-Brooklyn walk-and-talk monologue from a self-deluding man-child, anchored by John Reynolds — the form is modest and the title is the trap. Trusting Hagay's calibration.
John Reynolds doing a soggy Brooklyn walk-and-talk monologue as a man-child who hates his wife for not letting him hang posters is exactly the right delivery vehicle for him. The riverside introspection beat is the small craft choice that makes it more than a sketch.