Berlinale2023 Review: Dustin Guy Defa’s ‘The Adults’
), who are excited to see him but clearly realistic about the amount of time he plans to stay there. Sure enough, Eric is only there for a flying visit, until the poker circle widens and he hears about a high-stakes game that appeals to the card-sharp that lies beneath his easygoing exterior.
The title of the film is somewhat ironic since the real adults of the story—the siblings’ parents—are long gone and there are clearly issues that not been dealt with . In the absence of any parental figure, the three struggle to connect with each other, mostly by reverting to childhood, reiterating old jokes and songs that fill in the spaces that otherwise might be taken up by proper conversation. But even that doesn’t fill the void any more .
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Defa’s film does not exactly race to the finish line, struggling to fill 88 minutes with the delicate to-and-fro of whether or not they will ever, finally, communicate.
, suffered from a similar lack of substance but it did achieve what it set out to do, which was to present a characterful portrait of New York in a picaresque hipster style reminiscent of the city’s No Wave heyday. It also proved that Defa has a good eye for casting; even though Cera plays the character that takes us into the story, he is quickly upstaged by Gross and Lillis.
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