Review of Person to Person (2017) by Aw C — 05 Aug 2017

Off beat and hilarious. This is a gem of an indie film. Funny, sweet and deep.

This review of Person to Person (2017) was written by Aw C on 05 Aug 2017.

Person to Person has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jul 2017

Person to Person is a gently comic slices-of-life drama, the kind where a variety of people’s conflicting, occasionally overlapping experience…

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By Nathanael Hood (305) for Audiences Everywhere (44) on 27 Dec 2018

Person to Person is gentle, occasionally sweet, sometimes charming, but wholly unoriginal and undistinguished…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 05 Jul 2017

Writer-director Defa manages a few engaging exchanges, smart scenes and running gags…

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By Margaret Barton-Fumo (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Defa respects his audience enough to relieve us of patronizing synchronicities, allowing us to piece together potential themes on our own…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Jun 2017

This film, looking so little like its indie contemporaries, nurtures our appreciation of small details, emotional accomplishments most films…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jul 2017

It’s a film of ephemeral pleasures, adorned in a rich variety of voices, non-verbal gestures, and speech patterns: unfussy, unrushed, at…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Aug 2017

Person to Person's performances are engaging throughout. It even earns its end-titles dance party, which is something else you don't see every day…

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By Daniel Nava (97) for Chicago Cinema Circuit (97) on 29 Dec 2018

Defa, monumentally, does for NYC what Raymond Carver did for the Pacific Northwest. This is major…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

The writing and playing is so shambling and affable (there's a real 'They All Laughed' flavor to it), we don't mind how scattershot it seems…

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By Tomas Trussow (247) for The Lonely Film Critic (186) on 03 Oct 2018

It makes me want to fly out to the Big Apple right now and stroll the avenues, imbibing its unique offerings and seeing what hidden stories…

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