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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 1

  Dustin Guy Defa’s “Person to Person” is a gentle summer breeze of a movie that’s set during an early fall day. Amiably unstuck in time without feeling anachronistic, Defa’s second feature pulls off the trick of offering an analog version of New York in a digital age. Threading together enough vignettes to compete with a young Paul Thomas Anderson, Defa bounces between a motley crew of characters, all of whom are living together on their own time. On their own, they don’t add up to much, but play them together and they cohere into the cinematic equivalent of vinyl.

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★

  The minute tragedy of trying to get someone to listen to heavy metal when they're super not into it.

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  Review by Michael Sicinski ★★★½

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  An utter delight. A film that probably shouldn't work. It's all over the place yet disciplined. It projects a sense of cool indifference about its characters and its plotlines until you realize that everything was worked through to the very end, and everyone depicted in the film was shaped with great affection. You think all the stories are going to intersect. You worry. Then you suspect that none of the stories will actually intersect. You're relieved, even if that leads to a feeling of hip detachment. Then the kicker. Two stories briefly intersect, and two do not. A solution you never saw coming.

  The title of Person to Person describes director Dustin Guy Defa's fundamental method of building the…

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  Review by Walker King ★★★★

  What if a bunch of Wes Anderson characters wandered onto the set of a Cassavetes movie.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 2

  "got no bread to pay the landlord
  got a song that i can sing to clear my head
  one more time for your trouble
  and you say the hell with it and keep repeating"

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  Review by Jason Ooi ★★★★½

  What if everybody could articulate their thoughts and feelings like beat poet intellectuals?

  But Dustin Guy Defa is more like a jazz musician in how he composes this ensemble piece. One of the most effortlessly funny movies in a long while (though it has a very specific sense of humor), but at times it is actually quite beautiful -- it masters each tone it attempts really well! It's extremely sardonic -- romantic with an old soul, even if some characters are cynical; a film comprised of fairytale issues encroached by the real world. Defa's films are so gentle, yet tense, filled with repressed emotions.

  The cinematography is crisp and beautiful and please see this on print if you get a chance and oh my gosh the score, and the cast, and the characters, and Bene Coopersmith whom I wish would talk at me every night for the rest of my life.

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  Review by cammots ★★★

  This was a decent film and a good time. I really liked the overall tone and the way all the stories intertwined. There were some pretty funny moments like the bicycle chase with smooth jazz playing in the background. Also, seeing Benny Safdie and Buddy Durress on my screen will always make me happy. Obviously Michael Cera was the best part though.

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  Review by Calum Marsh ★★★½

  this movie is a gift to the world and we are all richer for it

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★½

  This has a good feeling for acting, and Defa has a gift for throwing one extra gesture in a scene that makes it go much better than it should. Yet, so much of this feels forced, a lot of the everyday observation strives for some beauty that never comes (for instance, the whole bit with Isiah Whitlock's tale of the woman who went to bed with Sinatra). Person to Person often uses its gentleness as a shield for engulfing its characters in mediocrity (a problem that a lot of Brazilian indies suffer from as well), as if the kindness on display should serve as more than enough reward, for it is difficult to make anything interesting with what is happening…

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  Review by KYK

  Penises are fundamentally ugly.

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  Review by Brendan Michaels ★★★★½

  Magnolia in New York. Hope Dustin makes more films cause this was special.

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  Review by 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕞 (𝕃𝕖𝕠) 𝕧𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕖𝕣 ℤ𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕟 ★★★½

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  There is something so gloriously satisfying about watching people just existing in their small day-to-day universe. Watching them start their day, eat breakfast, go to work, get through one silly, little, insignificant day amongst the thousands they live, is just so goddamn comforting. And this strange sense of comfort only grows when you see how easily intermingled these lives are or can get. You sense the warm feeling of home when you see these lives collide, whether it happens for good or for bad reasons. Even more important in all of this is the unpredictable nature of life. Almost all of the characters in Person to Person are as normal and go-to…