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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

2024 · 88 min

A wry, uncomfortable mosaic of small humiliations and deadpan vignettes that asks you to sit with awkwardness and find dry humor in emotional detachment.

Directed by
Joanna Arnow
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti
Overview
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

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Directed by
Joanna Arnow
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • sexuality
  • family
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism8
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Joanna Arnow
Written by
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Starring
Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Peter Vack, Michael Cyril Creighton, Alysia Reiner, Parish Bradley, Tanya Thompson
Cinematography
Barton Cortright
Runtime
88 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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