A very low end independent film featuring some very notable players, many playing themselves. It appears to be lit by car headlights, and the camera tripod only had one height, and they might have used the on-camera shotgun mic for audio.
I would love to hear the full story of what caused this film to happen. Film students could learn a lot from this. How and why the funding was cut. How and why these actors signed on to do it. (Eric Stoltz was just 3 years after Pulp Fiction.) And how the director and editor decided each individual edit. The pacing is weird.
It has the look and feel of a film school student project working with no discernible budget. But Baumbach went on to do great work, so he had to start somewhere.
I would love to hear the full story of what caused this film to happen. Film students could learn a lot from this. How and why the funding was cut. How and why these actors signed on to do it. (Eric Stoltz was just 3 years after Pulp Fiction.) And how the director and editor decided each individual edit. The pacing is weird.
It has the look and feel of a film school student project working with no discernible budget. But Baumbach went on to do great work, so he had to start somewhere.