Review of The Future (2013) by Andrew H — 03 Aug 2011

I loved Miranda July's ME AND YOU AND EVERYBODY WE KNOW, and was looking forward to her new film THE FUTURE with a kind of indie excitement that comes along only once in awhile. Well... Expectations can be the death of you.

Taking quirk to the nth degree, July here tells the story of two lost souls and their journey towards . . . um . . . each other? Maybe? It's narrated by a cat. The moon talks in it. And there's a guy who may have the power to stop time.

And that's really not even close to the worst of it. Like her previous film, once she gets down to people, she has a beautifully keen eye in getting right into the heart of a person (both as an actress and a writer), but the tone here is so goofy that I just never really cared.

Which, given her destination, is a huge problem. Everybody's good in it, I just wanted out of there. And I love cats. But not THE FUTURE.