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‘Serious People’ Review: L.A. Comedy About Indie Filmmakers Hoping to Work for Drake Has No Follow Through on Its Doppelganger Premise
In Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson's Sundance comedy 'Serious People,' naturalism and absurdity go hand-in-hand — for as long as they can.
The film was notably shot months before Drake’s high profile (and distinctly mismatched) feud with Kendrick Lamar, but the rapper having become a public punchline since makes the premise all the funnier. As Miguel veers slowly off the rails during his own directorial power trip — getting on Raul’s nerves in the process — he taps into the idea of a lingering, pompous creative ego in the broad strokes. It’s a movie with sparks of interesting ideas, but it fails to fully set them alight, expressing, through its comedy, only the most rudimentary forms of paternal and creative anxieties before calling it a day.
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