Funny Pages One Of The Best Films Of The Summer Shot Three Years Ago Review World Of Reel
Kline’s satirical jabs hit where they hurt. His film plays like a millennial “American Splendor,” only better. Shot in 2019, “Funny Pages” was sitting in post-production hell for the better part of three years until none other than the Safdies saved it and then A24 jumped onboard. It finally premiered at Cannes this past May. Interrogating his own privileged upbringing, Kline’s film is about a teenage boy (Daniel Zolghadri) who throws away the luxury of his upper-class life to try and live the grimy city life as a cartoonist....