Preston Sturges, watch your back! Jonathan Lisecki is to be applauded for his riotously funny (yet warm-centered) screwball comedy GAYBY, about a bikram yoga teacher (Jenn Harris) who resolves to have a baby with her gay best friend from college (Matt Wilkas). (Boy is that woman limber, the yoga scenes filled me with awe…) I love their friendship (the pre-Instagram college party-pic photo montage in the opening credits is divine), love the vignettes of his dates. Love her dates, too— a wonderful steamy out-of- (Nicholson-Baker’s)-Vox type sexy painter scene with Louis Cancelmi, who plays the taciturn werewolf smoldering type…though does yoga). In general, I like the frank portrayal of how New Yorkers hang out and hook up. It’s a movie about a baby, but is not otherwise babyish (unlike so many romcoms). I liked this so much more than the last movie I went to that I had expected to be both irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny and wise (Bridesmaids-which actually turned my stomach). This one actually delivers. (ba-dum-dum). Opens tomorrow (Friday) at Cinema Village.
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October 11, 2012
FUGUE: Quick review of the screwball comedy film GAYBY