Creativity doesn’t have to be some awful, chaotic being that destroys your humanity. Inherently, it could be that little voice in your head that makes your writing unique. The process of achieving recognition in some creative sector is a different kind of chaos that proliferated writer, director, and star Julio Torres in his journey to gaining a work visa in the U.S. and becoming a comedy writer. How hard can it be?
Some of the best films aren’t necessarily smart, but they’re “sneaky-smart.” You go into them thinking you know what you’re getting into, and feeling impatient as a result, because the movie conspicuously makes choices that seem intended to announce which boxes it’s about to check off. Nicole Beckwith’s Together Together is exactly like this. The inquiries that open the film – “have you ever stolen anything?” “Are you religious?” “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” – don’t spring from a painfully intrusive first date at all. Rather, as protagonist Anna (Patti Harrison) spills her proclivity for thieving pens to the perplexed Matt (Ed Helms), she’s interviewing to become his surrogate. While previously briefly covered in the club’s SIFF 2021 escapade, this delightful indie comedy has now hit streaming services this week, and upon watching it a second time I am proud to both give Together Together a proper review and call it one of my favorite films of 2021 so far.
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