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The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something has Passed

Ann oscillates between a chilly BDSM relationship, disenchanting dates, and a dull office job.

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Ann (director Joanna Arnow) is preparing a depressing dinner for herself by squeezing her ready-made curry from the ready-made bag into a pan. The mostly static camera follows Ann for an uncomfortably long time as she gets the last of the brown-green mush out..
Ann makes dinner for herself many times in the film. She is also often stark naked and bored lying next to her year-long BDSM partner Allen (Scott Cohen) and has conversations that seem to go unheard in the room. “I like that you’re not really interested in me,” Ann says. “Hmm,” says Allen. The routine sex dates with other men, which the film shows in both explicit and chilly scenes, don’t seem any livelier. Only Chris (Babk Tafti) seems different, nice, but that’s also a problem. Ann keeps meeting her annoying parents and going to work. Something with computers in white rooms. She get’s a prize for being in the company for a year (she’s been there for three years already). One time, her upload goes quicker than her colleague’s, a real highlight.
Joanna Arnow’s weird auto-fictional indie comedy consists of a series of short, whiny scenes from her/a life that don’t build on one another so much as they repeat themselves rhythmically. No development can be felt, rather, the film condenses into an intense feeling of stagnation and embarrassment, reminiscent of the films of Todd Solondz, Daniel Clowes’ graphic novels, and Lena Dunham’s “Girls.”

Hendrike Bake

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Original title: The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something has Passed
USA 2023, 87 min
Language: English
Genre: Love-story
Director: Joanna Arnow
Author: Joanna Arnow
DOP: Barton Cortright
Music: Robinson Senpauroca
Distributor: 24 Bilder
Cast: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Alysia Reiner
FSK: 16
Release: 12.12.2024

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