[ad_1] Like no one else, your siblings know the real you. They’ve seen you at your worst, maybe at your best, and in any case, at your smallest. It’s a relationship with a closeness and a candor all its own, but also with its own challenges over the years. “That love is unlike any other… Continue reading ‘The Adults’ filmmaker Dustin Guy Defa is ready to grow up
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‘The Adults’ review: Michael Cera in a sibling showdown
[ad_1] Stories of families and their complicated dynamics spring from a seemingly bottomless well, and can come to feel similar and uninspired. That’s not a problem with writer-director Dustin Guy Defa’s latest film, “The Adults,” a warm, wry dramedy that finds fresh resonance and insights from the story of three siblings each trying to move… Continue reading ‘The Adults’ review: Michael Cera in a sibling showdown
“The Adults” Deconstructs the Musical to Probe the Nature of Performance
[ad_1] Genre is a cursed thing. Dustin Guy Defa’s new movie, “The Adults,” isn’t really a musical, but the performances of music and dance that figure in it are both more dramatically essential and more distinctively realized than those in many films commonly thought of as musicals. For that matter, much else that Defa does… Continue reading “The Adults” Deconstructs the Musical to Probe the Nature of Performance