La vie selon Ann

The worst movie I've seen in years! There wasn't a single character I cared about at all. The script is almost non-existent. There are many, many, minutes of silence with no real activity on screen. Everyone in this movie seemed like they were ill, half asleep or just had totally boring. Nobody & nothing made any actual sense.

Not sure what equipment they used to make this movie but I've seen better video quality taken with a cellphone. And there was often obnoxious background noise. Not natural but maybe camera noise? Terrible.

The BDSM was more about strange relationships than actual BDSM. I know enough that It's usually not the submissive that tells the Master what they want. It was more just the main character wanting someone to be assertive in sex. The sex scenes here are not even softcore BTW.

Then there's the dialogue. An example is the Mother says: It's getting dark and it's 7:30. Ann says: Yes, I know. Mother: Tomorrow it will be 7:29. That's an entire scene. Hopefully no one was paid for writing this.

Nothing was funny. Nothing was dramatic. Nothing was exciting. Nothing was interesting. Movies like this one is why IMDB should allow Zero stars out of ten. One is too generous.

This has been the worst movie I've seen so far. The camera work, the offbeat deadbeat delivery trying to be quirky, the lighting, nothing seems to fit.

The movie tries to convey how boring and dull life can be, and I guess I can see that, but the writing is very on the nose about it.

The acting kills me. People go to school for acting, and yet I see this film, where people talk like six graders so the viewer understands every word.

And then the mundane nonexistent storyline about a mundane life with weird nude scenes. It just finalizes this piece to something I'll definitely steer clear of. I'll probably won't give this director another shot, I'm sorry, you missed!

My advice: don't watch it!

P. S.: Apart from what Lena Dunham said or did in public, 'Girls' was a great show and this movie seemed like it tried so hard to copy that.

I've watched 17 minutes of this movie, and every one of them felt like work.

The production design is sloppy, like a movie made at home by teenagers, but shoot with a RED camera instead of an iphone. The office scenes and the party dialogue about the salt lamp felt like a basic plan Shutterstock footage. The actress who plays the protagonist (and it's the director) is uncharismatic. Even to play a boring character demands at least some charisma. Last but not least, if this was meant to be a comedy, it is not funny. I'm astonished this movie managed to get a 77 Metascore. Definitely, it proves movie critics are just an old reminisce of the printed newspaper.

I found this movie to be very interesting and relatable. The BDSM, which there was alot of and alot of nudity, felt and seemed real and understandable. This movie showed us how she could not fully function in a 'normal' relationship and ended back up with the really bad guy for her who was rich and liked her but gave her absolutely nothing. I kept wishing for her not to self-sabotage this new relationship that was absolutely perfect without all the Hollywood fake perfection, but in the end, she still could not live without the BDSM. Do women like being submissive? Do they just want it all? We also see her try to put her foot down at work what with all the reshuffling and a tiny relationship with a coworker, but she also does not pursue it as much as she should have. The movie shows us a pretty sad story, but isn't all life a bit sad?

I saw this movie at the New York Film Festival and it had me cracking up. So completely out of the box, sharp, honest and hilarious. I loved the visual style juxtaposed with the frank sexual content - this felt like the female gaze at work. I've never seen a movie like this and truly enjoyed.

It follows Anne (Joanna Arnow), a Brooklyn woman in an unfulfilling, long term bdsm relationship (which bears a hilarious resemblence to her daytime identity as low level corporate drone) as she navigates her family, friendship and attempts at "vanilla" dating.

Would recommend if you like deadpan humor & appreciate nuanced characters.