Too much cinematic quirkiness tends to bring out the Lou Grant in me. To jog your memory, when Ed Asner’s character met Mary Tyler Moore for the first time on her classic sitcom, he told her, “You know what, you got spunk.” She hems and haws for a moment before he snarls, “I hate spunk!”
That’s how I felt watching Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad’s relentlessly quirky dark comedy receiving its world premiere at SXSW. You can tell that the filmmakers were going for a Coen Brothers vibe with this comically violent crime tale set in the Midwest (Wisconsin, specifically). With the exception of the central character played by Judy Greer, all the figures onscreen display the sort of eccentricities that are presumably meant to be either amusing or endearing but instead simply come across as odd.
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