It's a love story, featuring wonderfully 'normal' looking people. Yet somehow it doesn't quite click for me. Maybe it's too rambling and episodic. Maybe despite his entrepreneurial spirit, the Cooper Hoffman character just is too young. Alana Haim is the object of desire. I don't know. I enjoyed it though, particularly the scenes revolving around Jon Peters (Bradley Cooper) and the truck, and Sean Penn's action movie star (with Tom Waits). The scene with Benny Safdie bringing Haim to the restaurant to meet his lover Joseph Cross is pure Altman.
A film like this, you have to mention the production designer - Florencia Martin. (Probably an award winner for the most times we're inside a shop and you can see the name painted on the window backwards.) And the costume designer - Mark Bridges.
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