Little Miss Sunshine
A few years ago, a friend of mine who fronts a band told me, after returning from a Radiohead concert, that there was no reason for him to continue making music. He had seen rock and roll perfection, and it was Radiohead.
If I were a film maker, which I am not, I would be overwhelmed with a similar feeling thanks to Little Miss Sunshine.
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the husband and wife team behind music videos for the Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, and Oasis have unleashed their first feature film on the world, and it's easily the funniest thing I've seen in years. Not funny like American Pie. You might call it a black comedy, but that's too small of a pigeonhole. It's touching and it's tragic, but it's goddamned funny the entire way through. It's made very clear early on in the movie that Steve Carell's suicidal depressive homosexual character is the, um, "straight man," and he's the closest to "normal" you're going to get. It's sort of like what you might have gotten from Garden State without the flaws.
Oh, and Dayton & Faris absolutely nail the score as well, but would you expect any less?
If I were a film maker, which I am not, I would be overwhelmed with a similar feeling thanks to Little Miss Sunshine.
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the husband and wife team behind music videos for the Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, and Oasis have unleashed their first feature film on the world, and it's easily the funniest thing I've seen in years. Not funny like American Pie. You might call it a black comedy, but that's too small of a pigeonhole. It's touching and it's tragic, but it's goddamned funny the entire way through. It's made very clear early on in the movie that Steve Carell's suicidal depressive homosexual character is the, um, "straight man," and he's the closest to "normal" you're going to get. It's sort of like what you might have gotten from Garden State without the flaws.
Oh, and Dayton & Faris absolutely nail the score as well, but would you expect any less?