Brief Interviews Film Review
Jon Krasinski's film adaptation of David Foster Wallace's short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has finally premiered at Sundance. Much of the coverage is embarrassingly thin, but there were at least a couple of reviews worth checking out. Overall, the tone is positive.
Directed by John Krasinski (The Office’s Jim Halpert), the story follows Quinn as she sits with the men who are willing to talk about their relationship issues. One man admits to blurting out, “Victory to the Forces of Democratic Freedom” whenever he has an orgasm and discusses how this has had a negative effect on every sexual relationship he’s ever had, understandably so. Or there’s an amputee who talks about how he uses his missing arm to get women to sleep with him.
While Quinn is hard at work trying to understand the male perspective, it seems she’s surrounded by men who treat women like objects. . . .
There's also an audio interview with Krasinski talking about the film.
I don't imagine this film has the greatest shot at getting even minor distribution, but it would be nice to watch it at some point. Perhaps at the least they'll burn a few DVDs for the NetFlixers among us.
