NEIGHBORS is getting more NYC love! It’s been selected for the NYC Independent Film Festival and will be programmed with a Swedish coming-of age romantic drama, THERE SHOULD BE RULES. After watching their trailer, it’s bringing me back with good old memories of the ever-so-heartwarming film, FUCKING AMAL.
https://www.nycindieff.com/film/neighbors
OCTOBER 15, 2015 5:15PM
Producer’s Club - Theater G - 358 West 44th Street.
Festival’s Review: Nothing short of adorable, Neighbors is a fun romp into one nerdy man’s complicated love situation. Dirk, a computer programmer that works for a company similar to real life Tinder, has bad luck in the female department. When we meet his beautiful new neighbor and then proceeds to later find her bra has fallen from her clothing line, we follow him as he fumbles and bumbles his way around trying to return it to her. What evolves is an uplifting, if not a bit silly, story about a geek growing into his own brand of confidence. In a way, this girl’s bra almost becomes its own character and we want to know what will happen to it.
Neighbors is good, light fare that is written very well and filmed in a nice, inviting way. There are moments that could have been more tightly edited, but with the running time we get, there is just enough time to enter and exit into the story and still feel satisfied. For a relevant but cheesy little film, Neighbors certainly could hit the spot for many modern audiences living in this weird world of online dating.