Saturday, May 05, 2007
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
"Funny Ha Ha" is an excellent contemporary American indie film, the kind I wish there were more of, as it finds insight, humor, and pathos by examining real life. Our heroine is Marnie (Katie Dollenmeyer, pictued top and center), a post-grad Boston twentysomething "bouncing from one boring temp job to the next and in love Alex, a guy who likes her too much to feel romantic about her," and who is painfully oblivious to her feelings. 
One reviewer captured it beautifully: 'you find yourself completely absorbed by the way the characters avoid saying or acting on what they really want until they're in such a state of inner turmoil that they blurt it out or make a pass just when their object of desire is least receptive.'
The cast is wonderfully average looking and akward, and the leads are non-actors - notably animator and cartoonist Dollenmayer.
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