{"id":47853,"date":"2024-02-27T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=47853"},"modified":"2024-03-02T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:03:47","slug":"first-time-female-director-chelsea-peretti-2023-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=47853","title":{"rendered":"First Time Female Director (Chelsea Peretti, 2023): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by B Pyle at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2024.
\n\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 First Time Female Director (Chelsea Peretti, 2023) is a film directed, written, and starring comedian Chelsea Peretti, and stars other well known actors such as Amy Poehler and Andy Dick.\u00a0 This is a slapstick meets sarcastic farce movie.\u00a0 It is very funny, and timely, and pokes fun at everything it portrays.\u00a0 The colors are bold, and the portrayals are enlightening SNL improv skit sitcom meets longer format.\u00a0 For the edge of farce, I care about the characters.\u00a0 The extremed-for-laugh situations are funny and relatable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw First Time Female Director at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first time female director gets her job because her predecessor loses his job.\u00a0 Here stereotypes are mocked and spoofed to great comic effect.\u00a0 The director has a drunk gambling addicted therapist who she drinks with and counsels not to do cocaine again.\u00a0 The actors are spoofs of character tropes, like the posting younger actress who says that people are posting random crying outbursts and hospital visits, with no explanation. Almost everything is mined for laughs, and even when I wasn\u2019t laughing, things were comical and funny.\u00a0 Andy Richter plays the theater director, and Amy Poehler the therapist.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The acting here is well done and convincing.\u00a0 There are seasoned comic actors, who seem to enjoy spoofing themselves, and the current climate for creating plays, creative performance online, movies and media in 2024.\u00a0 The costumes and bright colors in the makeup and stage design are funny and sarcastic as well.\u00a0 The world for the characters to play against is well designed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984), has similar performative farce, and here it is in the context of a play the director writes, and changes to reflect today\u2019s social concerns, as spoken by a southern family from the past.\u00a0 This whimsicality, mixed with out-of-touch, in-touch is funny, as well as PETA bloodsport over water waste.\u00a0 There is also a similar feeling to more recent films like Bottoms (Emma Seligman, 2023), with the nonsensical use of social concerns subverted in comedic twists.\u00a0 This is like a longer episode of Larry David\u2019s Curb Your Enthusiasm, in the musicality in mixing many societal concerns with the comedic everyday.\u00a0 Amy Poehler has worked on SNL and Parks and Recreation, and other comedy movies.\u00a0 Farcical extremes are at play here, as well as with Andy Richter’s late night banter and skits.\u00a0 There is a large cast here all bringing their comedy skills and experience and playing off one another.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you like to laugh, and find everyday life events comical and spoofable, you would enjoy this film.\u00a0 This film shows the plight and hopes and frustrations of creative endeavor, from many points of view.\u00a0 The timing, and pacing, are well thought out.\u00a0 It probably took a lot of hard work to make the energy move, and the plot feel so ridiculous.\u00a0 First Time Female Director, provides comedy as a relief to sometimes ridiculously feeling social divisions.\u00a0 It can be helpful to feel empathy in the ridiculous odyssey of a journey that Chelsea has to take to get her play made.\u00a0 The movie seems shorter because it is well made.\u00a0 This film is definitely worth it to see.\u00a0 Beginning on March 8 as a Roku Original, it streams free on Roku.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by B Pyle at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2024. \u00a0 First Time Female Director (Chelsea Peretti, 2023) is a film directed, written, and starring comedian Chelsea Peretti, and stars other well known actors such as Amy Poehler and Andy Dick.\u00a0 This is a slapstick meets sarcastic farce movie.\u00a0 It is very funny, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47853"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48211,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47853\/revisions\/48211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}