A little fib to her ex-boyfriend upends the life of a privileged young woman in Dolly Wells’s stylish, Brooklyn-set diversion
Actor turned writer-director Dolly Wells makes her feature debut with this slight, elegant, lo-fi indie
comedy, a tale of self-doubting but privileged cultured/artistic twentysomethings in Brooklyn,
New York, which unrolls in the manner of Noah Baumbach or Lena Dunham.
Wells’s coolly indirect way with dialogue prevents the movie becoming insufferable in the way that it might have done in other hands. It is like a short story that insouciantly signs off before you’ve quite decided what it means.