Tuesday, 7 July 2015

You can't fight time

Liberal Arts (2012)

Written, directed by and staring Josh Radnor this film also features Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins and Alison Janney. A man in his thirties returns to his old college to visit a retiring professor and embarks on a relationship with a 19 year old student.

None of this is new ground and at times the plot is a little too obviously constructed but there is a certain charm to proceedings that carries the film. If you want something original about nostalgia for youth and older men dating younger women when it's not a good idea you should look elsewhere but for what this is this is a pretty decent film. Somewhat amazingly Radnor manages to throw off his annoying sitcom persona to be somewhat more considered if a little pretentious here.


3/5

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