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United Kingdom, United States · 2018
Rated R · 1h 48m
Director Jim Hosking
Starring Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Jemaine Clement, Craig Robinson
Genre Comedy, Crime
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A waitress living with her husband in a small town, Lulu Danger is intrigued when sees an advertisement for an event called "An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn: For One Magical Night Only.” When the show keeps getting delayed, Lulu finds herself torn between her husband, Shane, his friend Colin, and a figure from her past.
At its heart, Luff Linn is a very sweet love story between Colin and Lulu, punctuated by absurdity and a specific type of humor that (as I’ve referenced before) brings to the screen the spirit of the work of famed graphic novelist Daniel Clowes.
Hosking has a vision, and more often that not, it works.
Screen International by Anthony Kaufman
Deliberately off-putting, Hosking’s latest tests the audience’s patience with frustratingly unfunny scenarios and an array of nasty, angry characters doing unpleasant things.
The absence here of a joke is meant to be hilarious, or to at least congratulate the audience for willfully submitting to a denial of pleasure. Every element of the film is studiously, painstakingly random.
The result is sometimes overlong and wears out its welcome, but it clarifies Hosking’s distinctive tone — a playful and often charming blend of outré humor and genuine emotion that makes him one of the most distinctive new voices in current cinema.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The cast is mostly made up of film and TV comedy pros, all of whom seem to be having a good time overacting Hosking’s Bizarro World dialogue.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
As puerile and go-nowhere as the script is, Clement and Berry are more successful than their costars at making the dialogue their own. Clement even gets a laugh or two. But be assured that the pic's big reveal is not worth the wait.
It’s a film that you would, of course, expect from the director of such an entity as The Greasy Strangler, but, say what you will about that film, at least it wasn’t boring.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
This is an entirely ridiculous shaggy-dog story, a comedy salted with strangeness and seasoned with surreality.
It takes an absurdly long time getting here, but with a lot of “Man, that’s nuts” along the way, it’s pretty much worth the wait.
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