I Want to Feel Fun: Comfort TV Is In...
A day in Los Angeles in search of love, connection and Nicki Minaj.
Lately, I’ve been seeing a trend in short films where it’s just that…a short film. But I Want to Feel Fun is different.
It’s like watching a pilot episode of a show that has a high chance of being your new favorite comfort show.
I Want to Feel Fun feels like being a fly on the wall of someone’s life, watching them struggle to be something they’re not.
Lead actress and co-writer Esther Povitsky, who plays one of the most relatable characters known to man—the one who encourages connections with people who don’t have any interest in connections with them-is a prime example of little sister/youngest child syndrome. She’s energetic, funny without trying, naive, awkward, and doesn’t quite fit in.
Co-writer-director Jessica Sanders has a way of capturing the nonverbal comedy from I Want to Feel Fun through silence and body language.
She switches the perspective of the film from Esther to Avi back to Esther, which shows the raw, common lives of two people searching for connection through artistic outlets like dancing and acting.
Sanders elegantly weaves these storylines into a swift nine-minute run time, leaving the audience with just a teaser of two intriguing narratives.
I Want to Feel Fun is amusing, awkward, and suggestive, and I wanted more. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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