Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson has been insulated his whole life by the bubble of privilege. He and his hipster friends live in a tepid social paradise, a.k.a. Williamsburg, where their good fortune breeds indifference and recreational cruelty. They pacify their discontent with games of mock sincerity and irreverence, as though humor itself were dying and had nothing left to do but turn on itself. Testing limits to break through their numbness, they act out like spoiled children—with ironic beards and beer bellies.

Rick Alverson unleashes a camouflaged assault on contemporary culture veiled in a gorgeously crafted and humorous veneer. As taboos are broken, audience members are forced to question their boundaries and whether they should be laughing with it, at it, or not at all. A scathing look at the white male on the verge of collapse, The Comedy provokes and disorients; it's a carefully rendered cautionary fable for the autumn of America.
- T.G.

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Rick Alverson is a writer, director, and musician. Alverson and independent recording label, Jagjaguwar, have an established working relationship in music (nine albums in total), and, since 2010, they have developed several feature films together. Alverson’s debut, The Builder, is an existential study of an immigrant at odds with America’s promise. It was followed by New Jerusalem, a view of the immigrant experience through the lens of religious ideology. The Comedy is another, quite different, American tale—this time on the perils of entitlement.

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