Last night, I watched "
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn" based mostly on our household's love for Jemaine Clement, Matthew Berry, and Aubrey Plaza.
I would describe it as a more intentionally funny David Lynch movie. It's cheap and bizarre. The characters are absurd and the casting is equally strange. The music goes from being droning to silly. I really enjoyed watching it, for the most part. It doesn't stick a great landing, but it's a fun weird world to visit. It's not a perfect movie, it's not a smart movie, it's not always that funny, but it is
different like an old indie comedy movie.
The basic plot is that Lulu Danger, an unhappily married woman, has a criminal drifter help her get back together with her former lover Beverly Luff Linn, who has shown up in town unexpectedly to perform a theatrical event billed as "A Magical Evening with Beverly Luff Linn." It's a very strange love story that is punctuated with impossible weird personalities in a musty, retro landscape.
I think if the first scene or two doesn't make you laugh, then it's probably not going to be entertaining. I will also mention that one of the things that made me laugh the hardest was an old man coughing for about a minute when he was asked for a pen and paper. It just struck me funny, and maybe I am so starved for social interactions that even the slightest subversion of interpersonal communication has funny.
I appreciated the shake-up it offered, but wish it were better. It has a 51% on RottenTomatoes.com, so it's definitely a love it or hate it movie.