Performers: Joanna Arnow, Babak Tafti, Scott Cohen...
With her feature film debut THIS FEELING THAT THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING IS PAST, which she directed, wrote and edited as well as starring in, young filmmaker Joanna Arnow shows that she is one of the boldest and most creative young voices in American indie cinema, whose work has already been associated with the early days of
of directing greats like Noah Baumbach or Woody Allen.
THIS FEELING THAT THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING IS PAST provides mosaic-like insights into the life of Ann, a New Yorker who, having reached her 30s, has to reorganize her life - consisting of her long-standing BDSM relationship, her boring job at some middle-class company and her shrewish Jewish wife.
company and her quarrelsome Jewish family - pass her by. With laconic humor, writer, director and lead actress Joanna Arnow succeeds in subtly and self-deprecatingly providing deep insights into the shattered soul of a woman who, between distant conversations with her family and the bedsheets of various sexual partners, tries to block herself out - only to come closer to herself again in the end.