Thread: Medicine for Melancholy (Jenkins, 2009)

Quote: But anyway, I see your point, I just think to write off the film based on that alone (which it seems you were doing) is a bit too much. Oh no, it just made the story harder to take in. Sure I was with Jenkins' and his characterization (neither of his only characters I found myself caring for and was rather annoyed with who they were and how he proposed how they came to be who they were) and a lot of the scenes were just so obvious...

Ehm, Beastie Boys? But anyway, I see your point, I just think to write off the film based on that alone (which it seems you were doing) is a bit too much. This is a mood piece, and I guess it stands or falls with the viewer liking or disliking the characters, but you can't deny it paints its characters very well. And I don't think it's so much about why this relationship didn't work out, more so that it didn't, period....

There's something about movies where we follow two people for a specific amount of time in a city that is foreign, at least to many of the people watching. Whether it is Before Sunrise/Sunset, Lost in Translation, and now Medicine for Melancholy, there is something subtly inviting, romantic even, about the idea. It's a simple concept, especially from a narrative point of view but I almost always connect with this type of film. You...

Review located (with Jennifer's Body, Black Dynamite and Humpday : http://forizzer69.wordpress.com/2009...l-to-be-indie/ Quote: Medicine for Melancholy – a film I’ve been looking forward for a few months now has finally been accessible by me, after skipping Toronto theaters in lieu of a more obscure release. Well, the wait certainly wasn’t worth it, as the product was more mixed than the bags of nuts you get...

There's something about movies where we follow two people for a specific amount of time in a city that is foreign, at least to many of the people watching. Whether it is Before Sunrise/Sunset, Lost in Translation, and now Medicine for Melancholy, there is something subtly inviting, romantic even, about the idea. It's a simple concept, especially from a narrative point of view but I almost always connect with this type of film. You...

You already put me on the path of Goodbye, Solo before, so I'm going to trust you on this: it's in my download queue.

Wyatt Cenac is in this?

Wyatt Cenac is in this?