Sweet friend... Nate and Margaret didn't think much about their relationship. Emerging from neighborly life, their connection was perhaps a habit, an imperceptible convenience of diluted loneliness, from the addition of which there was no community, which allowed both to be together and apart, she - to try out at the castings of stand-up comedians, and he - to revel in the joys of student parties, followed by a morning headache.
In general, a movie resembling a couple of "Harold and Maude", with the big difference that here in the relationship of the characters there is no obvious certainty of feelings, but only a mutual location of a comforting partnership, smoothing the angles of personal failures by the presence of a grateful listener, participating in overcoming everyday adversity.
Ignoring questions about the strange community of a modest nineteen-year-old boy and a very ridiculous lady of fifty-two years, the couple comfortably spends all their free days and evenings together, until, as is customary between the two, a third wedges in, putting before them the question of who and what means to them, what is the meaning of the union when there is no love.
The standard invasion of the separationist, the inevitable crisis of clarifying relations with the same standard set of reproaches and resentments, exacerbated by an unexpected combination of circumstances, including in each of them a mechanism for reassessing former values, forcing, finally, to clarify preferences and preferences, delving into what the soul lies to.
In a trivial situation, except for the composition of the triangle, a pleasant subjective perception of the vicissitudes of crossing and diverging sides is created by the characters’ possessing external imagery, created not so much by the outstanding play of actors, but by the skillful typification of the behavioral appearance of persons, depriving even the slightest suspicion of the authenticity of their habits and manners, creating a natural atmosphere of confusion of feelings caused by acquisition or loss.
A movie of mood, not experience, with a taste of bitter humor and shades of lyrical drama, it may not be a revelation, but it will not deprive you of a good mood, and, if it was not very good with it, more than add to your good.