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Austin film in ‘Harmony’ with Vegas
Robert Byington’s Austin-made feature “Harmony and Me” is pacing the festival circuit, where it’s garnering attention and nabbed a review in Variety. It screens next in June at CineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas.
The movie’s produced by Austin’s busy Anish Savjani and co-stars notable locals Alex Karpovsky, Jerm Pollet and Bob Schneider, who plays a wedding singer, a notch below what he does in real life.
Here’s the lede from Variety’s review of the film:
A sad sack (Justin Rice), masochistically fixated on the woman who dumped him receives cold comfort from the assorted loonies he calls friends, family and co-workers in Bob Byington’s Austin-set sophomore outing. A mumblecore film without the mumble, “Harmony and Me” eschews the fits and starts, tensions and complexities of present-tense immediacy in favor of sly, absurdist one-liners, paring everything down to comic essentials. Bristling with wry wit and peopled with a rogue’s gallery of disaffected losers, this rhythmically timed (if indifferently shot) micro-budgeter could garner niche play based on its unexpected narrative intersections with current mainstream comedy.
Read the full review HERE
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