Nights and Weekends (2008)

Ah, "mumblecore".

Films, that at the heart of them, focus on mini-budget, dialogue-driven independent filmmaking, are, by virtue of their desires, INCREDIBLY respectful of your time. You'll be lucky to get one of these "mumble" films to hit over 90 minutes, so this beautiful 88-minute dive into the "mumblecore-iverse" was the perfect start.

NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS—Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig (in effectively her directorial debut) star, direct and write this film about a relationship over the span of its life with a year gap in between. This is independent cinema, first and foremost, for the 2000s, a direct development of the same principles since indies conception in the 1960s.

We make some valid points with what is a great, polished introduction into the "mumblecore" sub-genre, and it's an area (and director) we'll be uncovering again in the future, even if some of us don't like the term "mumblecore".

NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS (2008) is available to rent on YouTube and Apple!