Film review
Drinking Buddies 2013
Directed by Joe Swanberg90 minRomance · Drama · Comedy
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
½Watched 7 December 2022
Had never heard of this before, stumbled onto it randomly on Letterboxd while going through Jake Johnson’s films. There was a good review for it and the cast looked great; Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Jason Sudeikis and Emilia Clarke. Had me at Jake Johnson.
The acting is quite good, felt very natural, there were lots of really long takes where I think the actors have really good performances, especially Emilia Clarke and Jake Johnson. It’s not a typical romance, the people you expect to get together don’t get together, it’s a realistic film about love and friendship.
The ending was really good, I enjoy endings like that, feels anti climactic in the best way. Just two people sitting there. Life goes on.
I really like Jake Johnson, coz new girl and Spider-Man. He was good in this. Also Anna Kendrick because pitch perfect and 50/50 and because she’s Anna Kendrick. This film was kinda uninteresting at times, not too much happened, but it was good. I enjoyed.
6.6/10
Ok backtracking on my review real quick. I liked this film for how natural it felt, how it felt like real people having real conversations. I just read that it was entirely improvised, I didn’t even realise. That’s kinda incredible.
6.9/10
