I was a big fan of Lynn Shelton's 2009 film, Humpday, so I was interested to see her 2006 film We Go Way Back, which is having a brief release in New York at the moment.
And the film pays off early, with the kind of offbeat humor that marked Humpday and made it so surprising. Unfortunately, the comedy in this film seems like an afterthought, a throwaway subplot. In fact, it offers the film's best moments.
For the first half of the film, you can almost kid yourself into believing that these witty sidetrips - to the agonizing rehearsals for a small theater company's production of Hedda Gabler - are what the film is about. But then Shelton gets "serious" - and We Go Way Back dissolves into arty murk.
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