Review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) by Arin D — 27 Dec 2010
John Krasinski (The Office) directs, but I am not sure what this film adds. The novel (by hipster favorite author David Foster Wallace) might have been different, but this fim meanders for most of its length, with an underplayed, dour graduate student 'documenting' various stock male characters about their views on love and relationships, as her own personal life unravels.
Fine in itself as a vehicle for various well-known character actors to do their thing, but I think the film comes alive when Krasinski himself steps into the frame, and delivers a single monologue (about a woman he met) with such fervor that it lifts the ending.
If you wait that long, then see it, or just skip to the end. There's no narrative thread really, so it won't matter if you do.
This review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) was written by Arin D on 27 Dec 2010.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has generally received mixed reviews.
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