24 July 2008 4:08 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
With their 2005 indie sleeper The Puffy Chair, the Duplass brothers joined the growing ranks of low-fi digital filmmakers bypassing the usual cinematic gatekeepers, and just making a film on the fly. Their fiendishly clever follow-up, Baghead, pokes merciless fun at the very same Diy aesthetic that called it into existence, wondering aloud whether there's a certain creative bankruptcy to a bunch of friends getting together and deciding to make a movie. When four such friends head off into the woods for a moviemaking weekend, their spitballing session devolves into a fruitless evening of boozy chitchat, yielding not a single good idea. They're inspired by the notion of being filmmakers, but the reality of being one isn't for the half-assed. Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, and Elise Muller play the would-be writer-actor-directors of this little project, which finally comes to life when Muller dreams (or does she?)...
Scott Tobias
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