Review of Humpday (2009) by Anthony B — 24 Sep 2010
Painful, just barely funny, but passionate and earnest beyond even the overdone awkwardness or sickly-sweet naturalism that keeps it from going anywhere worthwhile. The mental processes of everyone involved -- creative, emotional, interpersonal -- are intense and naked: that goes for both the film-within-a-film, where characters give themselves over so completely to thought/feelings that the acting is laborious just as often as it's sharp, and it goes for the creative process of Humpday itself, where Shelton's careful, practiced unspooling of a tidy little idea (straight best friends go gay) morphs into a long, gut-wrenching play on gender, domesticity, and relationships.
It's all forthright and bold, but never clear or particularly compelling.
This review of Humpday (2009) was written by Anthony B on 24 Sep 2010.
Humpday has generally received positive reviews.
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