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Featuring Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Group blurs the lines between fact and fiction in this portrayal of nine
women who meet every Wednesday afternoon for 21 weeks of group therapy. In this modern probe into the American psyche, six unhidden and unexplained cameras capture this fast and funny, deep
and bumpy ride into consciousness as these dauntless women simply try
to find a little more happiness.
At
the center challenging them all is Pipi, the overweight one-legged punk
walled up inside her own contradictions. Orbiting closely are Clansey,
the Christian confounded by her own condemning judgments, and Grace,
the hypochondriac desperate to stay above the emotional fray.
In
this microcosm of life wrought with prejudice, pettiness, and trauma,
it's compassion that transcends all else with a level of reality rarely
seen in fiction. Six simultaneous camera perspectives expand the story
on screen with multiple frames and layered narratives. Unforgettably
funny at times and riveting to the final moment, Group delivers a fresh, powerful view of cinema and humanity.
"Mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls, Group articulates a flood of emotions."
—Ed Park, Village Voice
"Freeman's
direction is so deft and the performances so natural that her
remarkable experiment ends up feeling more realistic than most
documentaries."
—Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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