Mara (Tallie Medel) and Jo Mitchel (Norma Kuhling) are lifelong best friends living in Brooklyn. Mara teaches kids and aspires to write. Jo is tall, beautiful, and flighty bordering on mental instability. This is a story of their lifelong friendship and its difficulties over the years.
It's a fascinating indie. The two leads are well matched to their characters. At first, it looks like a run-of-the-mill twentysomethings mumblecore indie which is perfectly fine. Then it starts sprinkling in some hints of the darker substance underneath. That's the greatness lurking inside this story and that's its ultimate power. The indie filmmaking does hold it back a bit. Dan Sallitt is obviously still experimenting on his shots and some of it doesn't work. It serves no purpose to hold the camera stationary for minutes on the train station. It may or may not be trying to insert time passage into the story. There are better ways to do that. The camera work is not professional enough but the story is well worth telling. It's very powerful in its observational nature.
It's a fascinating indie. The two leads are well matched to their characters. At first, it looks like a run-of-the-mill twentysomethings mumblecore indie which is perfectly fine. Then it starts sprinkling in some hints of the darker substance underneath. That's the greatness lurking inside this story and that's its ultimate power. The indie filmmaking does hold it back a bit. Dan Sallitt is obviously still experimenting on his shots and some of it doesn't work. It serves no purpose to hold the camera stationary for minutes on the train station. It may or may not be trying to insert time passage into the story. There are better ways to do that. The camera work is not professional enough but the story is well worth telling. It's very powerful in its observational nature.