Set in the immediate and random background of today's London. The Comedian is a fresh, dramatic and funny story about choices and how not to make them.
Moments of inertia aside, Shkolnik's scriptless film makes a bold attempt to capture the staccato rhythms of life.
Projecting a character is hard enough, and harder still without the prop of a script.
Depending on your mood, the film might easily test your patience, or score highly as a brave, honest and thoroughly auspicious portrait of thirtysomething confusion, held together beautifully by Hogg.
Proves quietly impressive in its ruminations on latter-day London identity.
The film has the whiff of reality, but lacks the imaginative shaping that gives form, meaning and a sort of transcendence to the work of John Cassavetes and Mike Leigh.
General release. Check local listings for show times.