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‘Disfluency’ Review: Language and Memory Collide in Quiet Drama About Healing
'Disfluency,' Anna Baumgarten’s well-meaning tale of a young woman starting anew, cannot escape its well-worn trappings.
Well-meaning and clearly trying to offer up a twist on what’s unfortunately a well-worn tale about the aftermath of sexual abuse, “Disfluency” is nevertheless bogged down by its desire to wrap that narrative within the linguistics jargon its title alludes to. But as she spends time with these friends who seem stuck in an arrested adolescence, and as she gets to hang out more with Amber, whom they’ve all shunned, Jane realizes that her interest in linguistic breakages could be indicative of something else. If its ambitions never quite meet its execution, “Disfluency” is (clunky title aside) an amiable watch with its heart (and head) in the right place that still manages to charm, perhaps because it so exalts the very concept of imperfection.
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