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AFS Best of the Fests: Tiny Furniture
January 19, 2011
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The Austin Film Society is thrilled to kick off our new monthly series Best of the Fests with Lena Dunham's break-out feature TINY FURNITURE, back in the town where it first broke out. Its debut at the SXSW Film Festival in March was met with the Grand Jury Prize, and the film has since racked up two Gotham Award nominations and three Independent Spirit Award nominations on its way to becoming one of the biggest micro-budget successes of recent years. Lena Dunham writes, directs and stars as Aura, a 22-year-old college graduate who lands back home in her artist mother’s loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her YouTube page, and no shoulders to cry on.
Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, parties on chilly East Village fire escapes, stealing twenties out of her mother's Prada purse, pathetic Brooklyn "art shows," prison-style tattoos done out of sheer boredom, drinking all the wine in her mother's neatly organized cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.
TINY FURNITURE is an utterly charming tragicomedy about what does and does not happen when you graduate with no skills, no love life, and a lot of free time.
Playing with the short film MILTON IS A SHITBAG by AFS member Courtney Davis.
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2700 West Anderson
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$5 for AFS Members & Students with valid ID / $8 General Admission
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January 19, 2011Times:
Wednesday, January 19 @ 7 PM
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