Lemon

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Lemon

2017 Directed by Janicza Bravo

A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.

Brett Gelman Judy Greer Michael Cera Nia Long Shiri Appleby Fred Melamed Gillian Jacobs Rhea Perlman Martin Starr David Paymer Megan Mullally Jodie Turner-Smith Jon Daly Jeff Garlin Kayla Harrity Elizabeth De Razzo

83 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by demi adejuyigbe 5

I've sat through movies that are way worse than this, in theatres, but this is the first time in my life I've ever just got up and walked out of a film. Extremely not-for-me.
Review by russman ★★

They did not make lemonade out of this
Review by Jacob ★★★½ 6

Janicza Bravo makes some bold choices in her feature debut. Some of them work and some of them don't, but they were all fascinating at the very least. Co-written by Bravo and her husband/lead actor Brett Gelman, the script itself is pretty damn weird, but it's the direction she takes it in that makes Lemon compelling. Her blocking of the actors alone is something remarkable -- the juxtaposition of characters sitting perfectly still in front of a passionately dancing crowd, having characters sit back-to-back in dialogue scenes -- and her use of off-screen space and unconventional sequencing of shots just solidifies the confidence of her camera. The abstract, self-aware editing by Joi McMillon (Moonlight) incorporates the film's surrealism and absurdity…
Review by <Todd> ★½

"I didn't know there'd be accents." -Isaac,
Michael Cera as a theater douche... yes.
Most of this movie... no. In Lemon we follow Isaac, a guy who is a lemon. Is he turned into lemonade or does he just remain a lemon? You'll have to watch this awkward as fuck movie to find out. None of the characters were very interesting or gave you any reason to care about them or what they were doing. That's alright if you have some purpose in the film that helps guide the viewer but this seems to lack purpose as well.
There are certainly points I enjoyed but as a whole I just didn't get it or enjoy it very much.
Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★

this was so chaotic i kinda loved it
Review by KriscoSlice ★★

This movie feels like being half asleep on benzos while nursing a hangover. With all of these amazing comedic actors, you would hope for more, but the laughs never really came.
There is such a thing as successfully pulling off a comedy with muted inflection throughout, a fact that Wes Anderson is incredibly grateful for. Lemon is not that success story.
Some of the directorial choices were odd and disorienting, and i can't quite tell if they were intentionally so. A lot of the scenes are shot in an interesting way, but only as stand-alone scenes. They didn't flow together at all.
There were a couple scenes that felt way out there and were almost in the realm of Twin…
Review by Hari Nef

poisonous fabulous hilarious
Review by laird ★★★

This seems like a cautionary tale, but I'm not sure of what.
Review by Tyler ★★★½

I liked this for some reason.
If someone can tell me that reason, I would appreciate it.
Review by Kurdt ★½ 1

This is one of those indie films that has a singular idea, often an ostensibly intriguing one, but gets tunnel vision over it and fails to branch off and craft a full film exploring those ideas deeply. The first twenty minutes of this are interesting as it riffs on life as a performance, specifically among actors who play characters for a living, and whether their real lives are actually any less of a performance than the personas they play, as they struggle to stop being "on" outside of sets and stages. Also some pretty amusing moments revolving around the one-upmanship of pretentiousness, plus the blocking is weird and interesting, and there's a running joke where a character gets cut off…
Review by RONCKY ★★★½

Look, all I know is that I love Janicza Bravo, and I love that she's entered the feature film world with such a startlingly bizarre and unrelenting debut. Her short films showed promise; this shows continued boldness, and no desire to try and adapt for mainstream purposes. This is raw, odd, funny, and sad. Here's to surrealism's maintaining presence in "comedies" like this.
Also, she fucking GETS current Michael Cera. So goddamn well.
Bless ya, Gelman. Try everything.
Review by Laura Saladino ★★½

This movie defies the laws of time and space. The running time is 90 minutes, and yes, only 90 minutes had passed between the beginning and end, but I know (KNOW) that there were approximately five and a half hours contained in this movie.
Science.

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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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