Just finish the sentence

10 April 2012

Here's a tale of young middle-class Americans who find relationships difficult and sentences even more troubling to complete.

Nearly everyone in this film, directed by Andrew Bujalski, finds it hard to express themselves, especially when trying for either romance or employment.

The central character is 23-year-old postgraduate Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) who is first seen being refused in a tattoo parlour because she is drunk.

Thereafter she gets a deadend filing job and attracts the attention of an awkward office temp but fancies a friend who has just split from his girl.

The film, which was made in 2002 but is only being released in the UK now, made a number of critics' Top 10 lists in the US and on the festival circuit.

In a resolutely minor key and clearly made for practically nothing, no doubt it is pretty accurate in its summation of a certain type of American youth, but it risks making everybody seem terribly boring in the process.

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Cert: 15

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