Lemon
A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his girlfriend of 10 years.
12 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 August 1954, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
5 June 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 December 1980, Laredo, Texas, USA
14 June 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 16, 2017
It's a strange beast, at once somewhat reductive towards the artistry involved in acting, but simultaneously a product of that very same struggle.August 17, 2017
Bravo and Gelman find a transcendent absurdity in the mundane that's awkwardly enchanting. It's more tart than sweet, but deliciously weird nonetheless.August 10, 2017
Isaac's trashy identity -- including how the little world he lives in is punctuated by overwhelming choral music -- is like all the annoying sad-white-dude-in-an-indie tropes rolled into one absurd character. That's a good thing.August 15, 2017
It never stops feeling like a strained in-joke, with dialogue made up of relentless non-sequiturs and a cast full of familiar faces from cable TV.August 17, 2017
Lemon rolls a bunch of sequential scenes from start to finish, fruitless and unfortunate in its lack of any lasting effect.August 18, 2017
[Lemon] has some legitimately peculiar traits, and moments that flash with true absurdity. But there's a flatness in the end-result. The quirky is utterly predictable.August 17, 2017
One of the more original films in recent memory.August 17, 2017
Beyond deadpan, beyond drollness, beyond absurdity, lies Lemon, a "comedy" so uniquely off-kilter that it's never exactly clear when, or why, one should laugh-and when one does, it often occurs long after a given gag.August 15, 2017
Lemon by Chuck Bowen 1.5 Stars Self-absorption is Janicza Bravo's focus, though--as in other smug and mock-ironic comedies--it's a topic that's less examined than indulged.August 16, 2017
A hack sitcom-complete with lame jokes about talent agents and commercial auditions and an overbearing Jewish family composed mostly of character actors-trying its hardest and loudest to come off as freakish and off-putting.August 15, 2017
I'd love to bottle what Lemon has and sprinkle it on other comedies.August 16, 2017
It's the work of a filmmaker who has been honing her own jarring, idiosyncratic sense of rhythm and character for years. As a debut feature, it feels auspicious; as a snapshot of a masculine emergency, it feels timeless.