“Addition” isn’t so much Will-They-Won’t-They as They-Did-So-What-Now?
That’s familiar territory for plenty of people coping with mental illness in their intimate relationships and a strong subject for director Marcelle Lunam’s charming feature debut. This seriocomic romance is an imperfect meet-cute about living and dating with high-functioning anxiety that won’t work for everyone but may prove essential to the right audience. With a colorful snapshot of a complex narrator, screenwriter Becca Johnstone pulls fresh feeling from author Toni Jordan’s well-celebrated 2008 novel for this winsome movie, which recently premiered at TIFF.
Grace Vandenburg (Teresa Palmer) is a 34-year-old mathematician who is clearly dealing with something when we find her diligently counting produce in the grocery store. After Grace meets the kind and dashing Seamus (Joe Dempsie) at checkout — stealing one of his bananas to make sure she’s buying an even ten — sparks erupt between the...
That’s familiar territory for plenty of people coping with mental illness in their intimate relationships and a strong subject for director Marcelle Lunam’s charming feature debut. This seriocomic romance is an imperfect meet-cute about living and dating with high-functioning anxiety that won’t work for everyone but may prove essential to the right audience. With a colorful snapshot of a complex narrator, screenwriter Becca Johnstone pulls fresh feeling from author Toni Jordan’s well-celebrated 2008 novel for this winsome movie, which recently premiered at TIFF.
Grace Vandenburg (Teresa Palmer) is a 34-year-old mathematician who is clearly dealing with something when we find her diligently counting produce in the grocery store. After Grace meets the kind and dashing Seamus (Joe Dempsie) at checkout — stealing one of his bananas to make sure she’s buying an even ten — sparks erupt between the...
- 9/13/2024
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
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