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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I really hate this movie. I get that Aura was meant to be portrayed as a whiny snob but it ruined the entire film for me. I harbored high hopes starting this movie but was rewarded with tantrums, pipe sex, and tantrums again. A spoiled, artsy girl with no direction feels as if she's been forced into adulthood and now must juggle finding a job and fighting for her mother's attention.I believe there happens to be only one great thing about this movie which is her mother's apartment. Of the parts I could handle of the film, I was left wondering how the mother ever managed to remember what went in which beautifully white cabinet.

Directed by Lena Dunham, "Tiny Furniture" stars Dunham herself as Aura, a young woman who returns from college to her family home. She's returned with nothing but a film studies degree, a broken heart and a lack of direction. At home Aura mingles with many adolescents in a similar situation, and her mother, who is a successful artist.Whilst there is very little overt humour in the film, "Tiny Furniture" is nevertheless a satire of sorts, Dunham taking aim at the narcissism of both contemporary youths and a certain subset of pretentious, artsy-fartsy, liberal hipsters (all white and born of privilege). It's an insufferable film about insufferable people who talk about and do insufferable things. But that's the point.Somewhat autobiographical, the film was also made at that point in Dunham's own life immediately prior to the moment in which she slid from aimless, awkward kid to successful artist with her own HBO franchise. In its contrasts between a once wayward but now successful mother and her currently wayward daughter, the film foreshadows Dunham's own real-life rise. The film's not contemptuous of self-absorbed artists who take "pictures of tiny furniture" and "miss the forest for the trees", but rather sees adolescent self absorption, silly experimentation (Dunham's sexual escapades, her lame home movies etc) and private suffering as a kind of phase, a necessary step in perhaps becoming something better.What the film also unintentionally captures is the vacuity of late capitalism. Dunham's young adults hang suspended in limbo, aimless and lethargic. This has led to some viewers chastising them, denouncing their sense of entitlement (Dunham refuses to work in a coffee shop), their unwillingness to "get with the program" and "get a useful job". But with the adult world long discredited, and no viable alternatives apparent, the inability of these kids to function is wholly understandable. It's no coincidence that a rise in mental illnesses correlates with post-Fordist capitalist modes of production. Today, as much as 27 million Americans are on anti depressants. This dangerous individualizing and medicalizing of blame (ie the suffering of modern kids is "all their fault", is a "biological" problem etc) serves only to deflect away from the social causation of mental illness; it is the social sphere that is becoming increasingly toxic (humans are also becoming depressed, on average, at far young ages). We see glimpses of this in Dunham's film, kids pushed to choose irreversible life paths, groomed to be well oiled, productive machines, struggling with full time jobs, social expectations, debts, and of course conflictions over their inability to both follow passions and survive. "What do you do?" is the buzzword of this culture, a term which reveals a lot about society's obsession with work and jobs, obsessions which go so far as to shape the way we think, speak and base our identities. Maybe nobody can escapes this - continual is the cultural conditioning; a mythology which functions only to preserve the status quo – but it is the creative human beings who tries to. Who questions cultural assumptions and tests that which we take for granted throughout our lives.Aura, of course, doesn't explicitly question anything, and may in fact blossom into a quite mediocre artist, but the point is that she is anxious precisely because of these social pressures. Some have called her a narcissist, but narcissism often stems from oppression which in turns spurs the ego to compensate. Philosopher Christopher Lasch called narcissism "the fear of the emptiness that lies at the core of consumerism", but it goes beyond that. Personal gratification is the driver of both narcissism and late capitalist consumerism, which are two sides of the same coin. Consumerist marketing glorifies "projected selves" as "true selves", encouraging self-absorption even as it erodes identity, self-esteem and the resilience which enables emotional growth. The failure to attain projected ideals, or the drive to attain them, of course then leads to a myriad of anxieties. As the subject is overly dependent on socioeconomic signifiers and the approval of others, narcissism and insecurity only balloon further. Dunham's characters aren't only stuck in post graduate delirium, stuck in quarter life crises, but are essentially being pushed into self promotion, solipsism and competition; market yourself or drown.7/10 - Worth one viewing.

TINY FURNITURE by Val Turner 15 Cert, 119 min; director; Lena Dunham; Starring Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Jemima Kirke.Lena Dunham wrote and directed this smart comedy drama about a media student, Aura, who after graduation returns to the family home in New York, unemployed, adrift, overweight and plain. It is obvious from the thread of conflict that runs through the film, that her successful photographer mother (Laurie Simmons) and pretty intelligent sister (Grace Dunham) see Aura as an intrusion in their perfect, trendy life.As Aura drudges from one scene to another, allowing her self-centred friend Charlotte (Jemima Kirke) possible boyfriends Jed (Alex Karpousky) and Keith (David Call) wipe their feet as they walk all over her, you find yourself willing her to get a grip and take control.In truth nothing really happens in the film and a standard beginning, middle and end structure does not apply. However, despite the fact that it feels that Aura is swimming through a bowl of blancmange, this is her life and it is this sludge that holds you steady waiting for something to happen. There are poignantly funny moments particularly the conflict between mother v daughter and sister v sister and Aura's pathetic attempt to get herself into the arty scene by posting a Youtube film of her in her undies washing her teeth in a fountain.In fact Dunham spends as much time as possible in her underpants and baggy shirt, which does not flatter her unflattering shape. It is this self-effacing, actually closer to self-deprecating characteristic of Dunham that should feel refreshing but actually she does scrub up quite well and you are left irritated with her for not making the best of what she has.The film was named as Best Narrative Feature at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. It also won Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards and New Generation Award by the LA Film Critics Association along with nominations for Best Cinematography and Best First Feature. Recognition has catapulted this young writer/director into the limelight and has since produced "Girls" which on the face of it appears to be a sequel to "Tiny Furniture" given that Dunham and her friend Kirke play very similar characters. It's not and you do wonder how much the audience can take of this hapless young woman.Tiny Furniture is poignant and in these present economic times the story will resonate with graduates in similar positions. Perhaps they should all do what Lena Dunham has done and make a docudrama which may suck them out of the abyss and throw them into stardom.

By Maurice Jones 'Tiny Furniture' has a 'hipster' creed all over it by the look, which makes most people tray away from it. Myself being one of these people, I none the less decided to check it out as you can never always tell something just by the trailer and I heard Lena Dunham's life is as portrayed in the movie, so it wasn't necessarily a style choice, not that that's important.'Tiny Furniture' opens as you'd expect it too, down to the music. It unleashes a post 'Juno' independent film vibe that makes you wish more creative thought was put into this opening, however that's not the point to the film and if that is what Lena Dunham wanted to do based on reality, so be it.Immediately from the start you get an amateurish film making shot after shot, from which you start to feel as I did; how did Lena Durham even get her own T.V. show? The acting itself, is.... well, amateurish to say the least at first and once to get to meet Aura's friends some might not be able to get past the fact that everyone in the film looks dressed straight out of the 'Urban Outfitters' catalogue but this is not unbelievable or relevant. You soon realize that the spark of the film is not the style but the fact that the way the characters react to each other is quite real even to the point that the film allows you to figure out for yourself as to what Aura actually feels for her friends and family. It doesn't beat you over the head as to how to perceive each character but rather truly puts enough out there, and leaves you to put down your own slight possibility of who they are, kind of like figuring people out in real-life, which isn't easy to portray on paper. The film is also very aware of what the audience thinks or what the audience would do in certain situations. So, when you say to yourself, I hope this goes down this way because that's what would happen, it does. And with that I give Lena Dunham credit for being true to her audience self, therefore being a true movie fan and doing something realistic for the sake of logic and not for the sake of relating, which someone might misconstrued the movies point as. A movie like this is around to show that this reality is okay and exists, because as we all know, society imitates art. If you don't relate to this movie, it's probably because you're not in your twenties or you're less neurotic of a person but trust me the setting of the movie couldn't be less of the point. This is a different looking version of a too real reality of today's twenty-somethings.In the end 'Tiny Furniture' actually respects reality and what it has to offer as entertainment, avoiding emotional clichés, unlike the movie 'Young Adult' which involves many clichés, yet expects us to think it's different after it's all said and done. There are obvious problems with 'Tiny Furniture' but I've still haven't seen many movies like it, that respects the truth so much to allow it to play out as it does, that's why I like it, it's just straight up refreshing. To understand 'Tiny Furniture' you have to sit down and watch it in its entirety and see what happens, like life itself.