![]() ![]() “You can smell the basement apartments, musty comics shops, and cramped state-run offices, as Sean Price Williams captures every lumpy, odd face, and fraying hand-me-down sweater, placing us right next to these ugly misfits as they all chug away at their jobs and passions, barely keeping their own perversions at bay.”įor those seeking their next Safdie-related hit after Good Time and Uncut Gems-perhaps one with much lower stakes-this is a good bet. “The Safdies’ fingerprints are all over the movie’s sweaty, manic, shrieking texture,” writes Jacob Knight in his Letterboxd review. The offbeat comedy is shot on grainy 16mm film stock for a grungy aesthetic to match Kline’s early documentary influences and is an indication of his creative collaboration with Benny and Josh Safdie, credited here as producers. Funny Pages follows Robert (Daniel Zolghadri, a familiar face from the unnerving truth-or-dare scene in Eighth Grade), an aspiring cartoonist with a love of underground comic books and outsider artists, who is willing to go to great lengths to perfect his craft and break into the industry. ![]() In the spirit of ‘writing what you know’, Kline’s directorial debut, which debuted at Cannes this year, is firmly in line with his primary passion. Hot on the heels of Baumbach’s Sundance winner, he initially opted not to pursue a career in cinema, staying in junior high school and gravitating towards his dream of becoming a cartoonist. ![]() He carries the surname of his comedy legend father Kevin Kline, and his mother is ’80s heartbreaker Phoebe Cates (herself the child of film director Joseph Cates). But already, he was no stranger to the world of filmmaking. We first saw Funny Pages writer and director Owen Kline on screen in Noah Baumbach’s 2005 divorce dramedy The Squid and the Whaleat the age of thirteen. ![]()
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