Approaching a Breakthrough (2017)

Kieran Culkin and Mae Whitman Spar In Woody Allen-Inspired Short โ€˜Approaching a Breakthroughโ€™

In this surrealist short, a young man is visited by past therapists and exes while arguing with his girlfriend over a walk in Central Park. Back in New York after a stint in Los Angeles, Norman Kaminsky has a terrible argument with his girlfriend just before running into a string of characters from his past. Despite his best efforts to run away from his problems, Norman can’t seem to escape them.

โ€œThe initial idea for the short was to remake the subway chase scene in โ€˜The French Connection,โ€™ only instead of a detective and a criminal, it would be a psychiatrist (or two, and then some others) and a derelict patient,โ€ Pritzker told IndieWire. He had been living in Los Angeles for a year, and โ€œreally missed the spirit of making movies in New York.โ€ So he returned to New York in the hopes of re-connecting with collaborators who โ€œwere up for making more experimental things.โ€

Well scripted and engagingly shot movie that pays hommage to cult and classic films

I love the way the peanut gallery gave a comedic boost to this dialogue heavy short. It felt very real despite the unrealistic/imagined circumstances.

Directed by Noah Pritzker
Starring: Kieran Culkin, Justine Lupe, Jeanine Serralles

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