mutual appreciation and by andrew bujalski and be the type of film which really cause me to have to step back and question my love of cinema . it story ( that might not be the appropriate word and let say premise ) be of a young musician who come to new york . he talk to his friend a lot about his boring life and search for love . he also try to find other band member and and plan for his big show . that it . bujalski make what i suppose could be label a sincere effort with this film and but all through it incredible almost 2 hour run time i felt that i be watch a wan na be french new wave film by someone who have never actually see a new wave film . the film be full of awkward and possibly improvise dialogue segment which do not really flow . this could have work to the film advantage and add to it attempt at cinema varite and but it make the audience more uncomfortable than the character . the painfully simple camera work and the far overused and and rather barren and apartment set make the film less than visually stun . at point during the long and uninterrupted and dialogue piece and i felt like the cinematographer just dump the camera on a tripod and take a cigarette break . more so and the dialogue rant be not interesting and end up say essentially the same thing over and over again while perhaps this be the filmmaker intent and but if so it wasn not well think out . the character be also dull and very one dimensional . they sit around and smoke and complain and none of which be at all interest . mutual appreciation be part of an ever increase breed of film which attempt to emulate the style of art film from the 1960s and 1970s while simultaneously try to be modern and cut edge . andrew bujalski be not a talented enough filmmaker to pull off an effort like this and the haphazard approach here become infuriate by the one hour mark . despite it near epic length and it still feel like at least a good 20 minute of the running time be add simply to make the film longer . for example and i really do not care about see a five minute sequence in which the lead character perform a couple awful song on stage for around 20 sway hipster in the audience . if bujalski have make this film 30 minute shorter and or good yet and a 45 minute short feature and i might hold a very different opinion of it . but give how little actually occur in it and how long it take for it to occur and i be quite put off . here here to the future of art .