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Existentialist low-budget comedy "about one of life's losers".
Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.
A tribute to Richard Linklater's Slacker made by members of the Austin Filmmakers Society.
Dark comedy tracks happy-go-lucky slacker Max across three decades.
Gaps of communication Jessica Hausner on Lovely Rita and Hotel
Looking for the meaning Gad Elmaleh on Nanni Moretti, Woody Allen, Into Great Silence and Stay With Us
Living in limbo Letitia Wright on playing an asylum seeker in Aisha
The full picture DW Young on exploring the work of James Hamilton in Uncropped
The element of surprise James Hamilton on Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, the Village Voice days and Uncropped
Full steam ahead for Fantasia 2024 First tranche of titles revealed
The Outrun to open Edinburgh Film Festival Saorise Ronan's Sundance film to have UK premiere
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