The Four of Us
Description
What keeps friends together? Itamar Moses’s extremely clever and enjoyable study of camaraderie doesn’t provide answers, but it does offer a funny and touching display of male-buddy dynamics in broken sequence. Gideon Banner plays a young superstar novelist; Michael Esper is his friend, a struggling playwright. If there’s a drawback to Moses’s ease with form, it’s an unwillingness to dig too deep. There are tantalizing glimpses of pain and rage in these frenemies (sharply portrayed by the two highly charismatic performers, directed by Pam McKinnon), but they remain glib and amusing ciphers.—DC
