The attempt to capture the minutiae of everyday life is brave, but the activity Sanders actually portrays turns out to be disappointingly mundane.
Sanders makes Mike Leigh look profligate but his bare-budget, semi-improv ensemble piece stacks up dramatic riches over its 24-hour timespan.
There is something uncompromising in its pessimism, something that another kind of dramatist or film-maker would have tried to dissolve, or sweeten, or explain away.
The script, entirely improvised by the cast, strikes resonant chords of late middle-aged angst.
All the dialogue is improvised, which gives the film a raw, honest feeling of actors digging into their shared creations but inevitably engenders a static, theatrical air.
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