Summering is James Ponsoldt's most puzzling effort yet, a jumble of genres with the pleasures of none. agracru's review:
, a two-guys-talking picture based on journalist David Lipsky’s same-named memoir about his experiences with David Foster Wallace years before the author’s suicide. Ponsoldt seemed poised for big things., a job for which he was ill-suited and which turned up embarrassing results. No problem. Everyone has off days, or in his case off years.
The parents pose one of the film’s biggest problems. They’re just not interesting, even though Ponsoldt has cast them with interesting actresses: Lake Bell, Ashley Madekwe, Megan Mullally, Sarah Cooper. In a story ostensibly about children,gives the adults more oxygen than they need. Ponsoldt awkwardly tries to lead them to totally unearned catharsis toward the movie’s conclusion, jockeying for position with the catharsis his young principal actors actually deserve.
Growing up is a lonely row to hoe. For Ponsoldt, making movies has become a similarly burdensome challenge, which feels like a loss. In his 2006 to 2015 run, and within particular, Ponsoldt distinguished himself as a fresh American filmmaker verging on essential. He’s strayed far from that path in the last seven years. If there’s a positive takeaway from, it’s that at least he’s trying to find his way back to that path and back to the kind of filmmaker he was in 2013.
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