![]() (Williams), captures their grainy, delirious aesthetic best seen in their 2008 feature, Daddy Longlegs. No wonder Funny Pages was produced partly by the Safdie brothers, since Kline, besides using their regular d.p. ![]() How much attention should one pay to the technical execution, and how much to meaning? Once Robert asks such questions, his uncertain answers make him desperate to replace the guidance Mr. ![]() But its scrappy look is addressed later when Miles (Miles Emanuel)-Robert’s best friend stricken with acne, a mane of long frizzy hair, and a simple innocence-asks, “Is form really more important than soul?” It’s an essential question for any artist trying to find their voice or perspective. Watching Kline’s movie, shot on 16mm by cinematographers Sean Price Williams and Hunter Zimny, the viewer notices the intentionally crude style of early Todd Solondz, Terry Zwigoff, or Josh and Benny Safdie. Owen Kline, the film’s writer-director-and son of Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline-seems to have watched a bunch of hilariously scuzzy independent movies from the mid-1990s and decided to replicate them. Although most artists that Robert admires explore the banality of real life in sometimes grotesquely exaggerated ways, Funny Pages goes even further-beyond outlandishness into a cringe-comedy experience that induces as many winces as outright cackles. ![]() I laughed throughout these scenes many will not. But afterward, the teacher feels self-conscious and tries to apologize from inside his car while driving the wrong way down a road, and that’s when he dies in a sudden crash. If this sounds awkward and creepy, Robert isn’t bothered he doesn’t seem to mind his mentor’s enthusiasm for life drawing. Katano (Stephen Adly Guirgis), climbs on a table and gets buck naked-part of an after-hours lesson about the importance of working from human subjects. After urging Robert to “always subvert” in his fledgling cartoonist work, the boy’s high school art teacher, Mr. The result isn’t for everyone, but based on the description so far, chances are you know whether you’re interested.Ĭase in point: If you don’t laugh during the opening scene, then Funny Pages probably isn’t for you. The film unwinds in dusty comic shops and unseemly basement apartments, and it’s populated by weirdos, perverts, and at least one (and probably more) disturbingly unhinged man. But what does he know of it? He intends to learn. Although he comes from a privileged home in a New Jersey suburb, Robert yearns to portray the seedy life depicted in his favorite comics. Daniel Zolghadri-best known as the kid from Eighth Grade (2018) who makes a creepy pass at Elsie Fisher-plays Robert, the film’s 17-year-old protagonist who wants to be the next Harvey Pekar or Robert Crumb. Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World and Art School Confidential were evident inspirations for the story, which follows an aspiring young artist committed to transforming his life into that of an underground comic author. )įunny Pages takes place in a grubby and begrimed world, similar to those explored in alternative comics. Viewers can also rent the film in A24’s Screening Room on Thursday, August 25. ( Note: A24 has Funny Pages set for limited release on Friday, August 26.
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