Nancy Boy: Semans Debut Morbidly Entertaining
She’s the one that got away, but not in the way you’d think in Andrew Seman’s debut, Nancy, Please, an entertaining little jaunt of a film that manages to use its singularly structured point of view to give us something new concerning the plight of the privileged, white man-child. Overriding its own one note nature to give us an acerbic tale of arrested development, Semans, who also co-wrote with first time writer Will Heinrich, proves to be an adept storyteller, even if not quite everything about his debut is successful. But you may be surprised at whose perspective you align yourself with come the film’s final frames.
Yale PhD student Paul (Will Rogers) has recently moved in with his longtime girlfriend, Jen (Rebecca Lawrence) after what seems to have been an unpleasant experience as a roommate to a young...
She’s the one that got away, but not in the way you’d think in Andrew Seman’s debut, Nancy, Please, an entertaining little jaunt of a film that manages to use its singularly structured point of view to give us something new concerning the plight of the privileged, white man-child. Overriding its own one note nature to give us an acerbic tale of arrested development, Semans, who also co-wrote with first time writer Will Heinrich, proves to be an adept storyteller, even if not quite everything about his debut is successful. But you may be surprised at whose perspective you align yourself with come the film’s final frames.
Yale PhD student Paul (Will Rogers) has recently moved in with his longtime girlfriend, Jen (Rebecca Lawrence) after what seems to have been an unpleasant experience as a roommate to a young...
- 6/20/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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