December 23, 2007
juno
Saw this film opening night in Berkeley. Agreed all around: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, all cute. Overall verdicts: "cute" (Bill), "excessively cute" (Juliana). Thought often of another Berkeley movie, The Graduate, which premiered forty years ago to the day. Main thought: did the excited audience of four decades past find that naïve/knowing folk music to be as cripplingly awful as this? It would be a mistake to call it distracting — as if the taste of sea-water could distract you from drowning.
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