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Tiny Furniture

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Original title

Tiny Furniture

Year

2010

Running time

98 min.

Country

United States

Director

Lena Dunham

Screenwriter

Lena Dunham

Cast

Music

Teddy Blanks

Cinematography

Jody Lee Lipes

Producer

IFC Films

Genre

Comedy | Independent Film (US). Mumblecore

Synopsis

22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother's TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who's left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, parties on chilly East Village fire escapes, stealing twenties out of her mother's Prada purse, pathetic Brooklyn "art shows," prison-style tattoos done out of sheer boredom, drinking all the wine in her mother's neatly organized cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.

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Awards: 2010: Gotham Awards: 2 nominations: Best Breakthrough Director, Best Cast

2010: Independent Spirit Awards: Best New Screenplay. 3 Nominations, including Best First Feature

2010: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: New Generation Award

2010: SXSW (South by Southwest): Grand Jury Winner (Films).

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Critics' reviews

"Pitched unsteadily if shrewdly between honest self-reflection and squirmy narcissistic indulgence, the low-budget indie “Tiny Furniture” is one of the bigger itsy-bitsy movies to hit this year. (...) [Dunham] has created a work that addresses a constellation of ideas that speak to how we live now"

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"A deft self-portrait of someone who hasn't reached the point where they can take themselves seriously."

Trevor Johnston: Time Out
"I's a find -- funny and rueful and verbally dexterous, leavening a quippy screenplay with just enough honesty to make it stick."

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"What Dunham lacks in polish, she makes up for in her ability to observe her generation, with the hardest truths coming at her own expense."

Peter Hartlaub: SFgate
"Lena Dunham demonstrates a keen eye for detail, a sharp ear for dialogue and a nice line in deadpan playing in this, her debut feature."

David Parkinson: Radio Times
"Dunham's satirical intentions can't quite compensate for the pain of spending almost 100 heartless minutes in the company of irredeemably unlikeable characters."

Tara Brady: Irish Times
"It's best enjoyed, like Aura's life, as a work in progress, promisingly tangy and archly amusing."

Tim Robey: Telegraph
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