SXSW Film Review: The kindness of strangers creates beauty, growth, and laughs in Late Bloomers.
What the hell is a 28-year-old Brooklyn woman – unemployed, with little purpose in life, still desperately heart-locked on the guy who dumped her – going to do but get runaway drunk and, awkwardly stalking, break her hip?
To say “shenanigans ensue” would be an insult to this sweetly rendered narrative, even though the film is promoted as a comedy, because those shenanigans are solidly of the kind where it’s funny because it’s true. The truth of taking care of someone aging into physical dependence and mental uncertainty is as fraught as it is, intermittently and helplessly, hilarious – especially when the one in need starts off as a defiant stranger it’s impossible to communicate with.
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