A genuine meditation on male friendship, the absurdities of indie moviedom and many different kinds of loyalty, Daniel Schechter’s Supporting Characters, a surprise hit at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, sneaks up on you, its seeming limitations becoming its strengths over the course of its easy-going 87 minutes. Despite being shot in a fashion that recalls a comedy you might find on FX, Supporting Characters maintains an old-fashioned, craftsman-like quality about it; it’s written with feeling and humor that rings with truth, offering us characters whose lives are as complicated and full of ambiguity as our own.Alex Karpovsky and newcomer Tarik Lowe have great chemistry as film editors Nick and Darryl, who are doing a “save job” on a feature for a depressive director played by a never-less-than-terrific Kevin Corrigan. Although our Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s optimism and good humor gives way to potential conflicts over future prospects and formulaic romantic trouble (Melonie Diaz’s character just ain’t that into Tarik; should Alex stay with good girl Sophia Takal or fuck the needy blonde movie starlet-to-be Arielle Kebbel?), the picture has a true lightness; it isn’t ambitious in any sense and does its best to be honest to its intentions and kind to its audience. It also includes perhaps the… Read full this story
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