Film Review: Two Bit Waltz
If this had been billed as a student film, I might have tolerated it a bit better. Sadly, this first-foray by Clara Mamet (daughter of David Mamet) is just not smooth enough to be considered off-beat or quirky comedy. The problem is that it tries too hard. It's supposed to be autobiographical, which is even crazier. Does David Mamet hide under his bed all day? I'm all for absurdest humor. I love Monty Python and have enjoyed some classic off-the-wall comedies from the UK as well as the US. But maybe that's my problem. Nothing seemed original. Sure, dancing fish and ballerinas out of the blue does make one pause and wonder, but I was a teenager when MTV was born. Oddball videos were a part of my childhood, so I have seen this all before. Sometimes a film is funnier to those involved in making it than it is to the audience. I have a feeling the cast and crew laughed themselves silly, but maybe because it was a lot of fun to do something silly, quirky and just a