{"id":90585,"date":"2020-10-16T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-s-house-review-connor-raiffs-debut-is-more-tender-than-it-sounds\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:10:13","slug":"watch-s-house-review-connor-raiffs-debut-is-more-tender-than-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-s-house-review-connor-raiffs-debut-is-more-tender-than-it-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;S\u2014house&#8217; Review: Connor Raiff&#8217;s Debut Is More Tender Than It Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a41506e8a7a8\" 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-6a41506e8a7a8\" 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-s-house-review-connor-raiffs-debut-is-more-tender-than-it-sounds\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98S%E2%80%94house_Review_Connor_Raiffs_Debut_Is_More_Tender_Than_It_Sounds%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;S\u2014house&#8217; Review: Connor Raiff&#8217;s Debut Is More Tender Than It Sounds&#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-s-house-review-connor-raiffs-debut-is-more-tender-than-it-sounds\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98S%E2%80%94house_Review_Connor_Raiffs_Debut_Is_More_Tender_Than_It_Sounds%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;S\u2014house&#8217; Review: Connor Raiff&#8217;s Debut Is More Tender Than It Sounds&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98S%E2%80%94house_Review_Connor_Raiffs_Debut_Is_More_Tender_Than_It_Sounds%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;S\u2014house&#8217; Review: Connor Raiff&#8217;s Debut Is More Tender Than It Sounds&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98S%E2%80%94house_Review_Connor_Raiffs_Debut_Is_More_Tender_Than_It_Sounds%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;S\u2014house&#8217; Review: Connor Raiff&#8217;s Debut Is More Tender Than It Sounds&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Cooper Raiff\u2019s \u201cS\u2014house\u201d is perhaps the only movie for which I would pay double the price of admission just to see a montage of how all the theaters in America that have booked this puckishly named indie choose to represent its title. With symbols, like the movie poster (i.e. \u201cS#!%house\u201d)? Censored with asterisks or dashes, as <em>Variety<\/em> does, to protect its more sensitive readers? Or will they display the offending word in all its scatological glory, thereby making their marquees look as if a bunch of college kids snuck in and rearranged the letters for a laugh?<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it was probably funnier to imagine cinemas labeling themselves as a dump \u2014 or the place one goes to take one \u2014 back before the coronavirus outbreak brought them to the brink of extinction. Now, I bet Raiff wishes he\u2019d given the film a more enticing tile, like \u201cThe Time Is Now,\u201d or maybe just \u201cOpen for Business.\u201d Timing hasn\u2019t been great for Raiff, whose endearing debut was set to premiere at SXSW just as America started to go into lockdown. The festival was canceled, but the competition went forward, and the jury gave Raiff\u2019s low-budget marvel its grand prize. We haven\u2019t seen what else is in the mix, so it\u2019s hard to say whether they made the right call, but one thing\u2019s certain: There\u2019s real potential in this scr<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>y first feature.<\/p>\n<p>Raiff plays Alex Malmquist, an Occidental College freshman who\u2019s been having trouble adjusting to the idea of being a self-sufficient 19-year-old so far away from his family back in Texas. Alex can\u2019t stand his roommate (Logan Miller), isn\u2019t serious about classes and has no idea where to find the parties \u2026 or the girls, for that matter \u2014 all of which is probably a lot more common than most college <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> let on. Alex cries a fair amount (that seems unusual), but the movie joins him at precisely the moment he seems to be figuring it out. He may have been a late bloomer, but in \u201cS\u2014house,\u201d he actually manages to attend multiple parties over the course of one weekend \u2014 the first of which gives the film its name, taken from an Occidental party house.<\/p>\n<p>Almost right away, a young woman (Abby Quinn) starts hitting on him, dragging Alex back to his room for some anonymous sex, but Alex invents an excuse, slips out of the party and calls his mom (Amy Landecker). Audiences probably already know where this is headed, since Raiff and co-editor Autumn Dea have started cross-cutting between Alex\u2019s scenes and those of another student, a sophomore RA named Maggie Hill (Dylan Gelula) \u2014 a technique that typically means the film intends for these two characters of opposite genders to wind up together. Why not? They certainly make a cute couple: Raiff looks like a taller, skinnier Oscar Isaac, while Gelula suggests a young Karen Allen.<\/p>\n<p>To Cooper\u2019s credit, the young writer-director-star contrasts his character\u2019s emotional vulnerability with a very different attitude on Maggie\u2019s part. Earlier that first night, she had a liaison of her own (which fizzled for reasons one doesn\u2019t often see in teen movies), and when she spots Alex back at the dorm, she entices him back to her room to \u201chang out\u201d \u2014 millennial code for hooking up.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper brings enough honesty to this different-pages dynamic \u2014 she rushes into sex, he\u2019s looking for romance \u2014 that one can easily imagine him going on to write projects that connect with his generation, if only someone would take him under their wing, the way Judd Apatow did Lena Dunham (Jay Duplass coached him on his debut). But \u201cS\u2014house\u201d is no \u201cTiny Furniture,\u201d even if both films won SXSW (full disclosure: I was on the jury that gave Dunham her prize, so I\u2019m hardly impartial). This is a modest film, well-acted but rather clumsily assembled, that almost certainly would have benefited from an in-person SXSW, where it\u2019s possible to bask in the shared laughter of an enthusiastic first screening.<\/p>\n<p>Watching it at home alone is a different experience \u2014 a little too close to the isolation Alex feels. The movie borrows the discursive getting-to-know-one-another formula from movies like Richard Linklater\u2019s \u201cBefore Sunrise,\u201d but doesn\u2019t give its characters anything particularly memorable to say. (\u201cI have like zero friends,\u201d Alex shares. \u201cMy turtle died today,\u201d Maggie replies.) Still, there\u2019s something to be said for being so specific, and these exchanges feel real, rather than generic. Alex\u2019s overall situation is relatable, even if its outcome seems trite. For things to work out, Alex has to open up and become a bit more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>, whereas Maggie has to overhaul all of her ideas on intimacy \u2014 which \u201cS\u2014house\u201d sets us up to want, even if her resistance to deeper connection might have yielded a more complex film. That\u2019ll come with a bit more life experience, whereas this is a promising start. 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