Next @ the disTHIS! Film Series Beeswax presented as part of the 2nd Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival United States, 2009 Running Time: 100 minutes Language: English Director: Andrew Bujalski When: Friday, January 29th Time: 6:30 to 10:00 pm.  Screening starts @ 7:00 pm Where: New York University 19 University Place (below 8th St).First Floor theater. Room 102. Suggested Donation: $5  Watch the trailer online at: http://www.beeswaxfilm.com/trailer.html Previous Screenings

 

From acclaimed post-hipster director Andrew Bujalski, comes Beeswax a story of the modern relationships of a lost generation. Jeannie and Lauren are twin sisters and share a house. Jeannie runs a secondhand store. She is afraid that her associate Amanda wants to sue her so she turns to her ex-boyfriend Merrill for advice, as he is just finishing his law degree. Lauren is on the look–out–for a job and for a steady boyfriend.

Beeswax shows young people as they come to terms with taking responsibility and owning their lives.

The Los Angeles Times wrote:
"Bujalski is very much interested in how people -- in his instance, quite intelligent, civilized and articulate twentysomething individuals -- cope with life's everyday challenges, finding naturalistic drama in what may initially seem pedestrian."

The New York Times reported:
At first glance [Beeswax is] a modest, ragged slice of contemporary life... [it] turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie. Its leisurely scenes and hesitant, circling conversations conceal both an ingenious comic structure and a rich emotional subtext."

Salon.com opined:
"This warm, graceful and fundamentally optimistic movie snuck up on me, in the best possible way. ."

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Beeswax is presented as part of the 2nd Annual ReelAbilities
Film Festival, January 28 - February 1. Full details below.