The fitful, absurd relationship between the two, which doesn’t follow the course you might expect, forms the bulk of the movie.įor his first film, Kline has chosen a stubbornly unusual course-not unlike his main character, who rejects the clear path that has been set for him. Over the course of his typist work, the teenager comes into contact with Wallace-essentially Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons-a weird and aggressive, possibly mentally impaired man who used to work as a colorist for a cult comic. Against the wish of his well-to-do parents that he go to college, Robert starts working as a clerk in a crummy legal office, rents a squalid shared apartment with two sweaty old bozos in a down-at-heel neighborhood, and focuses on his drawing. Kline’s film, an A24 joint produced by the Safdies, is assured and funny, an almost bewilderingly throwback indie film whose wit and lack of starriness are beguiling.įunny Pages-an appropriately flat title for this downbeat comedy of manners-is the story of a young man, Robert), who works in a comic-book store and dreams of a career working as a cartoonist.
FUNNY PAGES NO EYES MOVIE
The most that anybody knows about Owen Kline, whose debut movie as a director premiered in Cannes yesterday, is that he is the son of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, and that he starred in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale as a child-so it is fitting that Funny Pages features a character trying to break away from his parents’ influence, and contains a grimly hilarious masturbation scene.
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