Summary
This review was originally part of our coverage of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
It is then a shame that most everything that follows lacks this same subtlety.
In others, it is an explanation for why he left and who he is now.
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None of this is something that he owes them, but they keep placing their baggage on him anyway.
Pop into the kitchen?
His sisters husband from hell decides that this is the perfect time to confront Sam out of the blue.
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attempt to then sit down for the family dinner?
Hell follow you there too and just keep bothering you for no reason.
If this sounds repetitive, thats because it is for the vast majority of its runtime.
Much of this is by design, but Savage stakes out little other narrative territory.
It just keeps bringing us back to the confines of the same conversations from the family.
Every move he makes gives the film something greater that it is never able to grasp.
Instead, it all slips away into repetitive conversation scenes that are clunky rather than resonant.
When all the noise quiets, there are moments that start to feel much more authentically transcendent and reflective.
Close to Youcomes to theaters in the U.S. starting August 16.
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