{"id":398253,"date":"2022-01-24T02:45:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-cha-cha-real-smooth-witty-and-well-made-but-engineered-for-sundance\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T02:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:45:50","slug":"watch-cha-cha-real-smooth-witty-and-well-made-but-engineered-for-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cha-cha-real-smooth-witty-and-well-made-but-engineered-for-sundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Cha Cha Real Smooth&#8217;: Witty and Well-Made but Engineered for Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25e7abde7d9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25e7abde7d9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cha-cha-real-smooth-witty-and-well-made-but-engineered-for-sundance\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Cha_Cha_Real_Smooth_Witty_and_Well-Made_but_Engineered_for_Sundance%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Cha Cha Real Smooth&#8217;: Witty and Well-Made but Engineered for Sundance&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cha-cha-real-smooth-witty-and-well-made-but-engineered-for-sundance\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Cha_Cha_Real_Smooth_Witty_and_Well-Made_but_Engineered_for_Sundance%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Cha Cha Real Smooth&#8217;: Witty and Well-Made but Engineered for Sundance&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Cha_Cha_Real_Smooth_Witty_and_Well-Made_but_Engineered_for_Sundance%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Cha Cha Real Smooth&#8217;: Witty and Well-Made but Engineered for Sundance&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Cha_Cha_Real_Smooth_Witty_and_Well-Made_but_Engineered_for_Sundance%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Cha Cha Real Smooth&#8217;: Witty and Well-Made but Engineered for Sundance&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        He\u2019s a cha cha real smooth talker. He\u2019s 22, tall and handsome with a beard, but not a scruffy hipster beard \u2014 more like a post-millennial, post-ironic traditional beard, which sets off features that are finely chiseled in a Middle American corporate way. (When he grins, he looks like Donny Osmond.) He\u2019s just out of college but has no idea what he wants to do. He\u2019s a Zoomer spinning his wheels, part of a tradition of aimless rebel slackers that stretches back to \u201cThe Graduate.\u201d He\u2019s sincere but a bit smarmy, a \u201cnice guy\u201d who knows how to <em>use<\/em> his sincerity. (He says stuff like, \u201cI feel there are things that you just, like, don\u2019t say to me. And I can\u2019t tell whether you\u2019re, like, holding back a desire to be close, or a desire to be distant.\u201d) He is, of course, good with the ladies, maybe a little too good, which is why he attracts the amorous attentions of a mother he meets at a bat mitzvah, played by Dakota Johnson. And he\u2019s got problems, but they\u2019re sort of white people problems. You could call them old-school indie-film problems.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew, the hero of \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d (he\u2019s played by Cooper Raiff, who wrote and directed the movie), is a charmingly annoying, selfish at heart but meticulously other-directed, oh so familiar Sundance Film Festival character. The film opens with a prelude that flashes back to when Andrew was a boy of 12, with a crush on a grown woman he\u2019s audacious enough to declare his love to. This, it seems, will be his \u201cpattern,\u201d though all I could think was, \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018Tadpole\u2019 redux.\u201d Fortunately, \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d is a much better movie than \u201cTadpole.\u201d Raiff, who arrived on the scene with the award-winning 2020 coming-of-age comedy \u201cShithouse\u201d (which he also wrote, directed, and starred in), has the instincts of a born filmmaker: how to shape a scene, how to bring out his actors, how to create a hero who\u2019s just interesting enough to hook us and just off enough to make us want to correct him.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew is confused about everything \u2014 work, love, you name it. Despite that, he\u2019s got the kind of cocksure personality that says Irresistible Indie Film Hero. And the push-pull dance he does with the audience (\u201cLook, I\u2019m charming! Look, I\u2019ve also got issues!\u201d) is more or less the same dance that the film is doing. \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d works overtime to be an honest movie, and it also works overtime to ingratiate itself. In a sense, it accomplishes both aims, but I\u2019m not sure that they entirely go together.<\/p>\n<p>The world of independent film is in transition. The once sturdy old dream \u2014 you make a movie, it gets into Sundance, it turns people on, it attracts a distributor, it\u2019s released into theaters and connects with audiences \u2014 can still h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en, but as a model for how the indie-film world looks after the streaming revolution, it\u2019s a lot less solid than it once was. The reason I bring this up is that \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth,\u201d which is likely to emerge as one of the rare \u201ccrowd-pleasers\u201d of Sundance 2022, is the quintessence of a certain kind of Sundance film that\u2019s rooted in an era that\u2019s going out of style. There\u2019s every chance this movie will follow the pattern of the dream. Except, perhaps, for one part: More than ever, I wonder who the audience is.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed most of \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth,\u201d even as I was aware that much of what happens in it feels like a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of tropes descended from \u201cRushmore\u201d and \u201cSay Anything\u201d and \u201cIgby Goes Down\u201d and a hundred Sundance films like \u201cThe Tao of Steve\u201d that are centered on lovably exasperating man-child flakes. There\u2019s the fact that Andrew has a job from hell manning the counter of a fast-food mall restaurant called Meat Sticks. There\u2019s the tranquil suburban setting and emo soundtrack. There\u2019s the way Andrew, tagging along with his moppet-haired kid brother (Evan Assante) to a bat mitzvah, winds up bringing the stodgy party to life, which is why the local Jewish mothers all agree to start hiring him as a \u201cparty starter.\u201d (He does well at it, until he gets drunk and messes up.) There\u2019s the mildly autistic girl he meets at that bat mitzvah, Lola (Vanessa Burghardt), and before you know it he\u2019s become her friend, protector, and babysitter. There\u2019s Lola\u2019s mom, Domino, played by Johnson in a performance lodged somewhere between trauma and come-on, who\u2019s drawn to Andrew not because she has a thing for seducing younger men, but because she\u2019s lonely, he\u2019s a saint to her daughter, and their personalities click.<\/p>\n<p>In the old indie-film days, Andrew and Domino, as inappropriate as their hooking up would be, would have hooked up. But you can feel the tremor of contemporary caution at work in \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth,\u201d a movie about an outr\u00e9 affair that never quite becomes an affair, the same way that you can feel it in \u201cLicorice Pizza.\u201d These movies want to tweak our proprieties and behave at the same time. And it means that \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d is less a comedy about an erotic-emotional rite of passage than it is a \u201ccharacter study\u201d about a kid too smart for his own good who\u2019s got to learn to grow up.<\/p>\n<p>It all <em>adds<\/em> up, and is even kind of touching (especially when Andrew informs his brother that it\u2019s time for them to stop sharing a room). But if you wonder why I keep carping about a movie that\u2019s not bad and was made with genuine talent, it\u2019s that it left me with honestly divided feelings. \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d is fine as far as it goes, and some of the acting is better than that. I especially liked Dakota Johnson, who is showing new depths from behind her sun-dazed smile, and Ra\u00fal Castillo as her sternly territorial fianc\u00e9. But the movie, for all its qualities, never explodes into passion or revelation the way that, say, \u201cThe Perks of Being a Wallflower\u201d did. Cooper Raiff is a skilled actor, but Andrew, as a hero, walks around overly pleased with himself, and this is one case where it\u2019s hard to unlink the character\u2019s self-regard from the filmmaker\u2019s. \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d could turn into a Sundance hit, but maybe no movie should seem this designed to be one.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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