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Creative Nonfiction
College student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to graduate. When she does sit down to work on the script, her increasingly awkward social life bleeds onto the page and her work begins to express her true feelings about her own situation.
| Release : | 2009 |
| Rating : | 5.1 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Title Designer, |
| Cast : | Lena Dunham Eléonore Hendricks |
| Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Reviews
There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
I loved Creative Nonfiction, this is the type of film people should look at in terms of production cost. When you're starting out in film you have to do a lot with nothing, and that is exactly what Lena does. You can see the raw talent that Lena possesses with her acting and dialogue. I think what makes the film so effective is that, as the viewer, I felt like I was prying into Ella's life. It's almost like going through someone's phone and digging through all their inner-most personal conversations and pictures. The whole movie was like a diary, and I think people are interested in that. Whenever we overhear a conversation about girls talking about their sex lives, you sort of want to linger around and overhear, because it's interesting. Creative Nonfiction is just that, it's a personal diary of a college woman's life.The objective, hand-held camera-work works great, still photography would have made the scenes monotonous, and it would have played out within the first 15 minutes. It's an impressive debut by the very young Lena Dunham.
The first time I went to watch this my spoiled brain stopped it after 10 minutes because it was not high cost production. The second time I loved it, it explored a lot of cringe moments between people who are trying to, or might, sleep together. Although there are some similar premises and characters to Dunham's work GIRLS this work reached more toward the existential aspects of the shared moments. I think it should score higher and also it didn't seem long enough, I could have watched for twice as long once I got into it. Initially I had to adjust to the acting and the camera style. In the end it's differences added to it's charm.
