Réalisation:
Andrew SemansScénario:
Andrew SemansPhotographie:
Eric LinMusique:
Chris WhiteActeurs·trices:
Eleonore Hendricks, Rebecca Lawrence Levy, Santino Fontana, Novella Nelson, Wally Dunn, Will Rogers, Alice KremelbergRésumés(1)
The movie tells the story of Paul Brawley, a young, gifted, aimless PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his competent, pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. Adulthood looms; responsibility beckons. There's just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that something has been left behind. A seemingly inconsequential object, but one Paul feels is of great importance to his dissertation and, therefore, to his future: a battered, personally annotated hardcover copy of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. He will have to retrieve it from his former roommate - the obstinate, casually sinister Nancy. Paul contacts Nancy, but she will not cooperate. She blithely thwarts Paul's clumsy and increasingly frantic efforts to retrieve his book. What should be the simplest of errands becomes intolerably difficult. Paul's jocular, enabling buddy, Charlie, eggs him on, reinforcing his inflated sense of persecution. Caught between an impatient girlfriend and an equally impatient thesis advisor, Paul starts to lose his grip. His annoyance turns to rage and then to obsession. As he becomes increasingly consumed with the retrieval of Little Dorrit - and with his romantic image of himself as the victim of a wanton injustice - Paul's relationship and career begin to unravel. His life will get much, much worse before it gets better. (Curious Films)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Eleonore Hendricks
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Les Chansons que mes frères m'ont apprises (2015)
Lenny and the Kids (2009)
Highway (2002)
Rebecca Lawrence Levy
Meilleurs films :
Tout va bien, The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Les Meilleurs Amis (2010)
Santino Fontana
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
La Reine des neiges (2013)
The Devil All the Time (2020)
La Reine des Neiges 2 (2019)
Novella Nelson
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
L'Associé du diable (1997)
Orphans (1987)
Meurtre parfait (1998)
Wally Dunn
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Rock Academy (2003)
Freak Show (2017)
Raisons d'Etat (2006)
Will Rogers
Meilleurs films :
Le Pont des Espions (2015)
L'Écrivain rebelle (2017)
Un jour de pluie à New York (2019)
Alice Kremelberg
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Les Sept de Chicago (2020)
L'Attaque du métro 123 (2009)
Les Faussaires de Manhattan (2018)