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RENO PREMIER! Funny Ha Ha is a low-budget jewel that paints a relaxed and very funny portrait of the latest generation of slackers. Beyond the guarded wisecracking of many indie movies, writer/director Andrew Bujalski and his cast of characters portray more vulnerable, sometimes painful truths. Astonishing newcomer Kate Dollenmayer (an animator on Richard Linklaters's Waking Life) stars as a young office temp struggling to maintain her dignity and sense of humor amidst a mundane job and ill-advised romantic situations.
To see the trailer, visit the official FUNNY HA HA website at www.funnyhahafilm.com.
"ONE OF THE TOP 10 FILMS OF THE YEAR." — Film Comment, The Boston Phoenix, Cinemaspeak
Winner of the "Someone to Watch" Award, Independent Spirit Awards
"A gem of smart writing, seamless acting and unvarnished beauty. Kate Dollenmayer gives one of the year's best performances." — Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
"Andrew Bujalski’s quietly impressive Funny Ha Ha uses the uncertain future of a smart but shy post-graduate Boston woman as the launching pad for a beautifully observant and wholly unpretentious film."
— Robert Koehler, Variety
"One of the [Los Angeles Film] festival's standout films. Funny Ha Ha touchingly unveils the endless chatter and awkward intimacies of a new generation of the overeducated and underemployed, a Slacker for the 21st century." — Jason Sanders, Filmmaker Magazine
"The shaggy, baggy randomness of young adult life and love—has never been captured more truly and convincingly on film." — Ray Carney, author of Cassavetes on Cassavetes
"I could have watched the enormously likable Marnie fumble through her life for hours, but alas, the film's a mere 89 minutes long. And that's just about the only bad thing I can say about it."
— Cheryl Eddy, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"There's more truth and humor in one of Dollenmayer's looks of romantic shell shock than in a whole passel of those unimaginative warm-fuzzy fests the studios like to pass off as romantic comedies."
— Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle
"At once tender and unsentimental, Funny Ha Ha deserves comparison to Mike Leigh's spectacular work for British television in the 70s and 80s." — Matthew Ross, indieWIRE
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showtime
Tuesday, April 19 at 7 pm
location
THE GREEN ROOM
144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel)
admission
$6 general / $4 GBFS members
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