{"id":4329,"date":"2017-03-11T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2017-03-11T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T16:32:23","slug":"review-odd-brodsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=4329","title":{"rendered":"Review: ODD BRODSKY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OddBrodsky1\"\"fixbutton\"Back in 2004, filmmaker Cindy Baer charmed indie audiences with her ultra low budget experimental feature \u201cPurgatory House.\u201d\u00a0 That film was highly regarded in critics\u2019 circles for what Baer was able to do with very little resources.<\/p>\n

12 years later, Baer revisits that material with the utterly charming tale of Audrey Brodsky (Tegan Ashton Cohan).\u00a0 Dubbed \u201cOdd\u201d by those that know her, we follow Audrey\/Odd as she leaves home for Hollywood only to find a dead-end office job.\u00a0 But she\u2019s really good at that job and quickly becomes an essential cog in the corporate machine.\u00a0 Still, Odd longs to act, which in these cult of celebrity driven times naturally leads her to mount her own reality show.\u00a0 But when things don\u2019t work out the way she planned, Odd might be forced back into the business cubicle.<\/p>\n

Very well lensed by Baer\u2019s husband Matthew Irving, with whom she shares a writing credit, \u201cOdd Brodsky\u201d is an off-kilter charmer populated by quirky characters.\u00a0 And Baer not only directs but, also, takes on a key role playing Sammy, a playwright producing a musical stage version of a film that is eerily similar to \u201cPurgatory House.\u201d And it is that musical that provides the film with some of its most entertaining moments, especially during the rousing closing title sequence.<\/p>\n

One thing that shouldn\u2019t be lost on budding filmmakers out there, is that Baer stuck with it, and through concerted perseverance saw her cinematic vision through another significant stage.\u00a0 Sometimes, finding one\u2019s filmmaking voice, as it has been often cynically called, results in many false starts or just a lot of useless whining.\u00a0 With \u201cOdd Brodsky,\u201d we see the evolution of a worthy story that the filmmaker rightly believes in and works to bring to audiences.<\/p>\n

One time, many years ago, I was shooting interviews at Sundance on a hotel balcony and Baer and her husband introduced themselves.\u00a0 I remember them as a really warm and authentic couple who were humbly excited about participating in the festival and making a career in film.\u00a0 Anyone who has attended a festival of that stature well knows the level of pretense that surrounds almost every encounter.\u00a0 Not so with Baer and Irving.<\/p>\n

One can imagine my surprise when, out of the blue, I was treated to another helping of their quirky comedy and sharing it with my 13 year old daughter was delightful. Let\u2019e hope that producers take notice and fund another story from these two.<\/p>\n

\u201cOdd Brodsky\u201d is available now in iTunes and VOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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