Lucy tries to retreat into her thoughts about their wobbly relationship вЂ“ hence the title. In all sorts of small ways that make most films seem staid, Kaufman establishes that we are in an uncanny, decidedly creepy parallel universe.Д®ven the drive to the farm is a purgatory of low-level irritation in which the supposedly loved-up young couple can never agree on anything or find a conversational rhythm. Scenes go on far longer than expected, dialogue overlaps with internal monologues, characters recite lengthy poems and even film reviews by heart. ItвЂ™s not that anyone behaves outrageously or threateningly. This being a Kaufman film, though, nothing is as it should be. At the family farm, they are served dinner, and JakeвЂ™s parents embarrass him with proud reminiscences of his schooldays before they drive off again. Twenty-something Lucy (Jessie Buckley, the vivacious star of Beast, Wild Rose and Misbehaviour) and Jake (Jesse Plemons), her boyfriend of a few weeks, drive out of a city and into the snowy countryside to meet his parents, Toni Colette and David Thewlis. The premise is as straightforward as it is in the Ben Stiller comedy. Da 5 Bloods is Spike LeeвЂ™s best film yet To put it another way, you wonвЂ™t really know what to expect at all, because KaufmanвЂ™s films are always weirder, gloomier, and more unsettling than you might assume, and his latest, adapted from a novel by Iain Reid, could be the weirdest of them all.

Imagine if Meet the Parents was remade by the writer of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and by the writer-director of Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa, and youвЂ™ll have a fair idea of what to expect from Charlie KaufmanвЂ™s IвЂ™m Thinking of Ending Things.

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