{"id":3351,"date":"2013-08-25T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2014-10-16T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:42:31","slug":"drinking-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/drinking-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"DRINKING BUDDIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like any good beer or alcoholic beverage, it&#8217;s all in the recipe. With DRINKING BUDDIES, take one part Ben Richardson&#8217;s cinematography (which, let&#8217;s face it, after the masterful Beasts of the Southern Wild, shows us a wider range of Richardson\u2019s talent on a &#8220;closed&#8221;, varied and internally intimate setting), two parts of an OUTSTANDING performance by Jake Johnson (and a nice little cameo by Ti West as co-worker Dave) and some great observational storytelling by Joe Swanberg and allow to simmer and brew.\u00a0\u00a0 The result is a warm, aged brew that has a little bit of bite as you slowly sip it, but then leaves a lingering sweetness on the palate.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3354\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-1.jpg\" alt=\"drinking buddies - 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-1-350x200.jpg 350w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A departure from Swanberg\u2019s patented unscripted and adored \u201cmumblecore\u201d styling, DRINKING BUDDIES boasts the maturity of a fine wine with a more defined story and dialogue structure and, as a necessity with a larger budget, planned and decisive lensing and locations.\u00a0 What is not a departure is the theme of friendship and working with friends in bringing the film to life.<\/p>\n<p>Luke and Kate work in a Chicago craft brewery; Luke works the floor while Kate is the marketing director.\u00a0 Each is surrounded by a core group of friends and work buddies, sharing the rigors of day in, day out life.\u00a0 With a strong, and more than flirtatious, friendship in place, it\u2019s obvious that Kate wants more than just friendship with Luke, despite the fact that she is in a relationship with the somewhat OCDC, yet grounded, eclectic music producer, Chris.\u00a0 Luke, on the other hand, is more than in love with Jill, a dedicated elementary school teacher.\u00a0 Starting everyday with a beer, and then continuing with them during work, at lunch, after work and at home, Kate is often scattered and unfocused and clearly not the girl for Chris, something which he soon sees.\u00a0 Alone and drowning her sorrows, Kate does the only possible thing &#8211; cry wolf and lean on Luke, thinking life will get better if she can win him from Jill &#8211; body, soul and beer bottles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3355\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-2.jpg\" alt=\"drinking buddies - 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male characters are truly the richest and most interesting of the batch, especially Johnson\u2019s Luke.\u00a0 Jake Johnson shines with all the natural effervescence of a bubbly brewski in a gleaming glass.\u00a0 He has a fluidity to not only his physical movements, but his dialogue and personal interactions that draw the eye to him as being the guy who appreciates the simple things in life that make one happy.\u00a0 He needs no trappings.\u00a0 This is the guy you can drunk dial or text and he\u2019ll still talk to you the next day, the guy who looks out for his friends and worries about them, but not in an overbearing commanding way.\u00a0 Johnson lets his performance breathe and DRINKING BUDDIES is the richer for it.\u00a0 My one fault with Johnson &#8211; &#8211; when you are shooting scenes sitting on a floor with your feet facing the camera, please wash them.\u00a0 I have NEVER seen the soles of bare feet as filthy and black as Johnson\u2019s and, as Swanberg points out, \u201cThat was real.\u00a0 They really were that dirty!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/drinking-buddies-6.jpg\" alt=\"drinking buddies - 6\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/drinking-buddies-6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/drinking-buddies-6-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are some bitter parts to this recipe, however, notably Olivia Wilde as the overly assertive, egomaniacal, narcissistic Kate who just grates on the every nerve, and a disappointing turn by Anna Kendrick.\u00a0 As Kate, Wilde delivers a beyond needy and demanding figure who would alienate me from the get-go if I had to work with her, let alone drink with her. (Kate is probably the reason all her co-workers want to run to a bar for some brewskis after work &#8211; they need to blot her from their minds.\u00a0 She is also probably her own reason for drinking so much.\u00a0 If I had to live in that mind and body, I\u2019d drink, too.)\u00a0\u00a0 n the other hand, Kendrick, while effective as Jill, delivers a put upon \u201cfragility\u201d that feels out of place and uncomfortable, like the third or fifth wheel on a date, making any efforts at assertiveness or conjoining with Ron Livingston\u2019s Chris appear out of character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3360\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-7-392x300.jpg\" alt=\"drinking buddies - 7\" width=\"392\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-7-392x300.jpg 392w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-7-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-7.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ron Livingston\u2019s Chris is perhaps the most mature of the lot and provides a welcome calming balance to Wilde\u2019s Kate.\u00a0 Where Livingston shines, as does Kendrick, is when Chris and Jill connect on a walk in the woods during a double date weekend.\u00a0 tentative, charming, their chemistry is undeniable.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting and appreciated is that Swanberg limits the alcohol consumption of Jill and Chris and keeps them out of the \u201chappy hour\u201d mentality, allowing them to be both \u201coutsiders\u201d and \u201cobservers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, a great little cameo by Jason Sudeikis as Kate\u2019s boss is wasted, inexplicably falling the wayside as an unnecessary addition from first pour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3356\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-3.jpg\" alt=\"drinking buddies - 3\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-3-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Characters are ordinary and real, living very ordinary lives.\u00a0 What resonates, however, is the inherent specificity that \u201cjust is\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s not calculated or planned, but naturalistic and organically complimentary.\u00a0 There is no need for backstory.\u00a0 Swanberg plants us firmly in the moment thanks to the texture of performances, allowing us to \u201caccept\u201d life as it is. The story has a casualness to it that is refreshing and will resonate with just about everyone but particularly that 20-30-something set &#8211; work in the brewery, hang out in the bar with your buds, lust after each other.\u00a0 Swanberg creates an effortless ease not only with the story and characters but with his direction.\u00a0 Lusting after each other\u2019s partners and making the daring to dream romantic moves feel appropriate given that this is what happens nightly in bars around the world.\u00a0 Setting DRINKING BUDDIES in a\u00a0 brewery and a \u201cbeer bar world\u201d gives a freeing tacit license to indiscretion or \u201cdrunken bravery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson\u2019s cinematography is essential to DRINKING BUDDIES as its clean, crisp metaphor sets the tone as the perfect backdrop to the confusion of emotion that reigns thanks to Wilde and Kendrick.\u00a0 The opening brewery shots with the gleaming stainless steel machinery and capturing the detail of cleaning each and every hose, floor, vat, etc. elevates the characters as well, taking them out of the \u201crun-of-the-mill laborer\u201d to guys with pride in a job well done and in their product.\u00a0 The visuals speak volumes.\u00a0 And as comes as no surprise, Richardson\u2019s framing is meticulous as it subtly draws the eye into focus.<\/p>\n<p>The attention to detail with production design is more than effective &#8211; not only at the brewery, but with the rich warmth and dark wooded hues of the local bar and Chris\u2019 brick-walled apartment.\u00a0 Similarly, the visual metaphor of Kate\u2019s apartment &#8211; windows allowing lots of light &#8211; creates a wonderful ambiguity to the character and to the relationship between Kate and Luke.\u00a0 Kate\u2019s affections for Luke are clear and they are out there for the world to see although she tries to play things close to the vest and \u201cbusiness like\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3358\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-5.jpg\" alt=\"drinking buddies - 5\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/drinking-buddies-5-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where Swanberg excels is in making DRINKING BUDDIES a more full-bodied emotional experience that his previous films.\u00a0 The construct is richer, the characters and emotions infused with some spice and nuanced flavor.\u00a0 The ambiguity of the characters and their relationships, particularly with the couples\u2019 beach weekend, has a natural, unforced feel to it that allows everything to organically bubble to the top like the perfect head on a beer.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the film to another level is music supervisor Chris Swanson\u2019s wonderfully eclectic blend of songs.\u00a0 It\u2019s like walking into a bar with 64 beers to choose from and saying \u201cwow\u201d to each one.<\/p>\n<p>Like a well crafted craft beer that celebrates the personal touch of a micro-brewer, DRINKING BUDDIES is one tasty treat.<\/p>\n<p>Written and Directed by Joe Swanberg<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: debbie lynn elias Like any good beer or alcoholic beverage, it&#8217;s all in the recipe. 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