Synopsis: Swanberg and his co-writer and co-director, Greta Gerwig, previously created 2007’s boldly naturalistic “Hannah Takes the Stairs,” and here continue their remarkable collaboration. They star as James and Mattie, twenty-somethings who are very much in love but are struggling to keep their relationship going – he lives in Chicago and she’s based in Brooklyn. Their visits to each other are becoming less about the pleasures of being together and more about the difficulties of synching up their separate lives. [Synopsis courtesy of IFC Films]
I have a theory: Joe Swanberg is fucking with us.
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