Review of Other People (2016) by Jenna I — 16 Oct 2016

A beautiful and deeply depressing portrait of a young man struggling with the helplessness of experiencing a slow personal loss. Chris Kelly did such a fantastic job writing and directing, Other People shines a spotlight on what it feels like to watch both your parent and your childhood die at the same time. This movie perfectly portrays that backpedaling, rip-tide feeling of being sucked back in a role you outgrew years ago. It's comfortable, familiar and yet completely wrong. That sinking feeling that your own life and memories have somehow become "other"- as if you suddenly realized that every standard you've been measuring by has been wildly off this entire time and you never noticed until now.

Molly Shannon is absolutely brilliant as the mother, she captures each up and down with grace and subtly- I'd go ahead and say its impossible to watch this movie without weeping at least four times, all due to her performance. It's a simple but powerful movie, with some genuine laughs in there along with the tears.