Obvious Child

Gillian Robespierre

IndieLisboa 2014 •

United States, Fiction, 2014, 83′

A girl walks into a bar and starts telling jokes about her vagina and her boyfriend. But it turns out the joke’s on her: the boyfriend’s been sleeping with her friend, and he takes advantage of her public, extremely off-colour verbal antics to dump her. Basting in misery (she’s also about to lose her job) and alcohol (with a gay wing-man on hand to enable her), she attempts to find solace in family, friends, more stand-up, and ultimately a casual hook-up. What comes next represents a brave new frontier in comedy.