Showing posts with label Celeste and Jesse Forever. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celeste and Jesse Forever. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Real and Sincere, One of the Year's Best: Our Review of "Celeste and Jesse Forever" (2012)

Directed By: Lee Toland Kreiger

Starring: Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen

Rating: R for language, sexual content and drug use

Run Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Synopsis: Celeste (Jones) and Jesse (Samberg) are two best friends who got married but decided to divorce after six years to preserve their friendship. When Jesse starts to date other women, Celeste begins to realize she may have blown the best thing she ever had going in her life.

REVIEW

Andrew: Hello readers! Yesterday Sarah and I caught a late afternoon showing of Celeste and Jesse Forever, the new dramady starring Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg (which was also co-written by Jones). This is a film that’s been in limited release so far and we just recently found out it was in our neck of the woods so it’s not one we’ve had a chance to preview but we’ve seen the trailer for it many times and it certainly caught our eye.

The topic of the film, with Jones’ Celeste and Samberg’s Jesse being best friends who were married for six years but are getting divorced yet hang out with each other constantly was something that piqued our interest. The different take on a relationship like that made us want to check it out.

Sarah, when we left the movie you seemed a bit ambivalent about it.

Sarah: I don’t know how to feel about it! It was funny, I will give it that. There were some parts that literally made me laugh out loud. Not just a chuckle, but an honest to goodness laugh. It was hilarious.