Screenings: March 1, 7:45pm (Rep); March 4, 4:15pm (Cam 12); March 8, 7:45pm (Rep)
This is one of those slow, character-driven films that only works if you resonate with the characters somehow. I did not, and so it felt more like a long, slow eavesdropping on other people’s lives. Daisy is a young woman with an ordinary life. Her estranged father, Wyatt, whose girlfriend has just left him, calls her up to ask for her help: he has a five-year-old son, Noah, who needs someone to look over him while Wyatt works. Daisy agrees to help and finds herself living in a beautiful house with her phenomenally difficult half-brother while her father is away all day. He’s essentially away all night as well, as he has no real idea of how to interact with her or his son. Wyatt seems to hope that having Daisy there will help him reassemble the shards of his life, but she is not a miracle worker. This largely-improvised film is a good fit for fans of the experimental art-house movie, but not for folks who like action, character development, or much dialog.
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