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FUNNY PAGES in 35mm
Tuesday, August 12
8:15
U.S., 2022
Written & Directed by Owen Kline
Starring Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel, Michael Townsend Wright, Shane Fleming
Approx. 86 min. 35mm.
In Owen Kline’s hilariously dark, pleasantly unexpected coming-of-age feature, a promising 17-year-old cartoonist abandons school and his spoiled suburban lifestyle to live as a cartoonist on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey, and among the city’s fringe figures to whom he willingly gravitates. Produced by the Safdie brothers and shot on 16mm by Sean Price Williams (along with Hunter Zimny), Kline’s feature debut draws surprising connections between the lo-fi traditions of American independent cinema and the vividly observed marginalia of underground cartoons, but its distinctive, cringe-inducing humor and genuine affection for its characters establish a world belonging completely to the filmmaker.
AN A24 RELEASE
Reviews
“★★★★★ A kind of Crumb vision, which confronts or exorcises, or is simply a cry for help… I spent an awful lot of this film gasping for air or giggling hysterically, often at the same time.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“...[A] terrific, tonally flawless feature debut.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
