Camerman Sean Price Williams is forever in close proximity to his cast of actors, most notably Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. Into the unequal yet mutually respectful partnership between the ageing Carla and listless Ben they nonchalantly breathe life that both leading characters had no longer expected to find. And the viewer is forever present, in amongst the moments of situation comedy and cringe-worthiness, as they gradually become part of this unconventional and yet completely normal every-day family existence. The constant state of both togetherness and conflict comes across as spontaneously as in real life – a result of the artistic leeway that director Nathan Silver deliberately left open to his acting pair in the form of an improvised script. The result is a lightly staged comedy about crises of meaning and faith and those unexpected happenings in life that always turn out differently to how we expect.
Text: Bernd Buder
English: Peter Rickerby
