Synopsis
Life's a journey. Hers is an obstacle course.
A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
2017 Directed by Christian Papierniak
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Mackenzie Davis Carrie Coon Alex Russell Alia Shawkat Haley Joel Osment Annie Potts Brandon T. Jackson LaKeith Stanfield Rob Huebel Sarah Goldberg Kyle Kinane Luka Jones Meghan Lennox Sheldon Bailey Lauren Miller Melinda McGraw Ryan Simpkins Dolly Wells Salme Geransar Michelle Haro Suzanne LaChasse Marcia Ann Burrs Robyn Clark Rebecca Kessler Bobby Lamont Johnny Otto Matt Riker Robert Santi Ty Hubbard Show All…
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Peter Lauritson Mackenzie Davis Christian Papierniak Melissa Panzer Meghan Lennox Paxton Swafford Jay Tipton
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Izzy Gets the F#*k Across Town, Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town
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LA Film Festival
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22 Jun 2018
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17 Jun 2017
- Premiere LA Film Festival
22 Jun 2018
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There were some good things about this:
-the music
-Alia Shawkat
-the lavender tinted scenes (stylistically, not content-wise)
-some of the existentialist dialogue in the middle of the film (frankly, if the whole film had been this way, it would have worked a whole lot better)Most of the movie bothered me. We have an unlikable lead character. Even if we did like her, everyone else disliked her. She was horrible to people and burned all her bridges. And we are supposed to root for her to crash a party. Yet she has no way to get across town. In this age of scooters, cabs, and Ubers, there's no way Izzy couldn't get the f*** across town a lot sooner.…
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At the risk of making it sound better than it is, Christian Papierniak’s “Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town” is sort of like a Riot grrrl riff on “Inside Llewyn Davis.” Imagine if the Coen brothers’ lonely and embittered hero had once been in Le Tigre instead of a folk duo, and you’ll have a decent feel for the kind of emotional riptide that stirs beneath the surface of this ramshackle comedy. It’s broad and sloppy where “Inside Llewyn Davis” is specific and precise — linear where that film oozes in all directions like an open wound — but an electric lead performance and a growing sense of self make it worth your while to see that Izzy gets where…
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This film sometimes sells itself on having a cool punk aesthetic full of bright colors and anger. But it never really follows through on that other than a few flashes every now and then between just a normal indie comedy look.
But the story also doesn’t follow that vibe either. It’s not a furious race against the clock to fight for something. It’s a meandering race about a spoiled, arrogant girl throwing a tantrum. The story never pulls me over to her side for even a moment, so I just really struggled to care about this.
It’s a great cast of people: Makenzie Davis, Lakeith Stanfield, Alia Shawkat. But they were wasted with this script.
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3 Mackenzie Davis films this month and 3 very different films at that. No regrets. It’s sort of hard to tell it’s her from one film to the next, which is a compliment on her range (especially Terminator vs. Happiest Season), This is the weakest film of the bunch, but she is still great.
This also pairs well with 7 Chinese Brothers with Jason Schwartzman simply for the fact that I watched them both in the same day, and the main characters have a lot in common.And random unrelated note, why does the activity tab remind me of Harry Potter every time I click on it, nice one Letterbox(e)d. ⚡👓
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That pasty hobbit is the guy Izzy Got The F*ck Across Town for?? When Lakeith Stanfield was right there in a bed with her literally that morning??? Tragic
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i'm a carrie coon stan first and a human being second, which means i'll continue watching shit like this for her!!!
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Love the overall style and manic energy, but almost all of its parts went on for just a bit too long. Alia Shawkat’s and Carrie Coon’s segments were my favorites, though I found something to like in all of them. It’s not really a performance piece, but this would be worth watching for Mackenzie Davis alone. She plays into the chaos well.
This might be one of the handful of indies that would’ve been better on a smaller budget — not quite as grungy as it needed to be.
Rating: 63/100