Tiny Furniture
2010 Directed by Lena Dunham
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Aura would like you to know that she is having a very, very hard time.
22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner.
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Lena Dunham, the latest bright new thing, has quickly amassed a devoted following and with a hit HBO show plus two feature films under her belt by the age of 25 she is obviously prolific and motivated. However, the hyperbolic declarations that she is a voice for her generation, authentic and a female Woody Allen seem wide of the mark. Whilst I realise why she has her fans her brand of filmmaking and comedy leaves me utterly cold.
In Tiny Furniture she takes the overly familiar graduate angst set-up and then says nothing insightful, witty or clever about this well worn situation. All of the characters are horribly self-aware contemptuous figures that, whilst well read, are ultimately empty vessels. The…
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If the point of this movie is to hate every single character so viscerally that I'm scared to go to New York for fear of meeting someone similar to the characters in this movie, then Lena Dunham is brilliant. If not… then I'm confused.
The characters Lena Dunham creates are so unabashedly selfish, vapid, pretentious, and idiotic. What's frightening about the movie is that they are also fully realized and authentic… which makes me think that people this horrible actually exist somewhere in the vicinity of Lena Dunham. Which means I can never live in New York, because I might run into one of them and my life will be ruined.
The story is self-important and meaningless. There's absolutely nothing…
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I think I'm supposed to hate movies like this, the drifty after college middle class angst movies, but I just don't. I've never seen Garden State, about which I am reasonably proud, but I do love The Graduate, I really liked Greenberg (the ultimate graduate), and I loved Tiny Furniture. I'm sure, if viewed from a certain angle, this could seem like an indie-gazing navel fest, but something in Lena Dunham's delivery of the scenario, her character, the mopey realism, really charmed me. I simply enjoyed this movie and I want to see her make more of them.
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GIRLS creator/star Lena Dunham is in familiar territory as a woman struggling at adulthood. Filled with mostly unlikeable characters (but not uninteresting. See also Goodfellas), Dunham's film will have plenty sharpening their knives in a fashion only a young female filmmaker seems to provoke. I like her style and oddness, though it's not as good as Girls at its best. When that show hits, it's excellent but this meanders though she is still a charming presence. Girls members pop up regularly and all are brilliantly loathsome in their own unique way.
Would like to see her tackle something new now.
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One year ago today I watched this film for the first time and it was my very first entry here on Letterboxd (you can find my original review here check the comments section, I didn't know how to put it as a review yet back then)! This was my first foray into Lena Dunham's work, and I enjoyed it so much, I watched her tv show Girls (2 seasons now). I've been wanting to revisit this movie since I watched the show, and I thought this would be the perfect time!
There are obvious comparisons between the film and show, and even share some common actors such as Alex Karpovsky and Jemima Kirke, as well as Dunham herself. The tv…
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Observing the life of a freshly-minted college graduate, Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" wanders through the ups and downs of jobs, parents, friends, romance, and everything else the post-student world has to offer. The film is more a slice of life than a narrative derived from conflict, but it is mostly watchable and mildly engrossing. Dunham is charming, and her characters represent recognizable modern archetypes. Overall, "Tiny Furniture" is a modestly enjoyable experience.
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I can understand why this isn't for everybody but this really blew me away. Tremendously insightful and self-assured for a first feature, not to mention a first feature by someone Dunham's age. I "got" it and recognized myself in the story which is always great and emotional but I also found myself having an emotional reaction to someone being so comfortable and confident in their voice and having their vision so fully realized. "Girls" is fantastic but this film is what made me excited for Lena Dunham's career.
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It's all so real. Hilariously, amusingly, uncomfortably real. Dunham truly is the voice of her generation, and I'm not 100% decided, but pretty sure that that is terrifying.
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Its hard to get a bead on what, exactly, this film thinks its doing. Its obviously about post-graduation malaise and aimlessness, but the film seems to be afflicted with the same problems as its characters--its clever enough, sure, but doesn't seem to know what its saying. There's a distinct lack of viewpoint here, which lends the film an observational bent, but its far too closely tied to its protagonist Aura (Lena Dunham) and her perspective to really pull that off. Characters enter and leave the story with little notice, subplots (in as much as anything in this movie can be called a "subplot") begin and are dropped. Mostly, things happen for 90 minutes, and Dunham is angsty about them.
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It is very easy to see how this feature functioned as a demo or introduction for Judd Apatow to Lena Dunham. A majority of the themes and issues present in HBO's "Girls" are represented on a minor level throughout the picture. Not to mention that a variety of the supporting cast has also gone on to find roles in the supporting cast of Dunham's show.
The picture is not without fault, but if Dunham is able to maintain a successful or at least inventive career for the remainder of this decade, future self-absorbed teens/recent grads will clamor to this picture.
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Observing the life of a freshly-minted college graduate, Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" wanders through the ups and downs of jobs, parents, friends, romance, and everything else the post-student world has to offer. The film is more a slice of life than a narrative derived from conflict, but it is mostly watchable and mildly engrossing. Dunham is charming, and her characters represent recognizable modern archetypes. Overall, "Tiny Furniture" is a modestly enjoyable experience.
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GIRLS creator/star Lena Dunham is in familiar territory as a woman struggling at adulthood. Filled with mostly unlikeable characters (but not uninteresting. See also Goodfellas), Dunham's film will have plenty sharpening their knives in a fashion only a young female filmmaker seems to provoke. I like her style and oddness, though it's not as good as Girls at its best. When that show hits, it's excellent but this meanders though she is still a charming presence. Girls members pop up regularly and all are brilliantly loathsome in their own unique way.
Would like to see her tackle something new now.
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I enjoy Dunham's writing style and it was interesting to see her earlier work but the film seemed to drag on a little. Definite worth a watch if you are into 'Girls' .
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FUCK. THIS. MOVIE.
I know a lot of people are visiting this after seeing Dunham's HBO series, but to all thinking about it; AVOID.
It's unfunny, overly-complicated and under-written. Completely devoid of any humor whatsoever and so offensively 'Indie' it makes me want to scream.
'The Nietzschen Cowboy'? ...SERIOUSLY?
I might also add this is the most excruciatingly boring film ever committed to celluloid.
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I enjoy Lena Dunham's writing style and really loved the first season of "Girls", but this film just didn't work. The dialogue in the film was strong and there were a lot of interesting ideas in the screenplay, but none of them were fully developed and I felt that the film just dragged along for much of its runtime. I do admire Dunham for casting so many amateur actors and really making it work. But, the film just didn't impress me. I hope that Dunham returns to filmmaking after "Girls" ends, since she's clearly improved her writing since this film.