Laggies

Try as they might, though, these performers can't help boost Laggies, which appears to have been completely manufactured from the parts of other Sundance-approved dramadies about twenty-somethings figuring themselves out. 

Le filmage particulièrement bâclé, dans la première partie du film, donne un faux départ à ce film qui prend véritablement son envol vers la trentième minute, lorsque le sujet et la forme, modeste, convergent plus harmonieusement.

Les thèmes soulevés, comme le conformisme et la solitude, sont traités de façon un peu superficielle, mais le tout reste amusant et bien amené. On aurait aimé que Megan remette ses exaspérantes amies à leur place, mais elle trouve quand même le moyen de se libérer du carcan.

Everyone in Laggies seems to respond to Lynn Shelton's loose, honest assessment of the way-too-early mid-life crisis. But the movie reminded me, yet again, of how wonderful Keira Knightley can be when freed from the binding corsets of the period genre.

From production values to performances to the script, everything here is more polished than we've come to expect from Shelton's lovably loose films.