As Hannah Horvath Lena Dunham, the writer, director, producer and star of HBO’s ‘hottest’ new show Girls dove headfirst and topless into the very particular problems for a very particular subset both in front of and behind the camera. Prior to that, Dunham found critical acclaim with the semi-auto-bio flick Tiny Furniture, and while it doesn’t necessarily tread the same memoir water as Furniture or speak with the same generational platitudes of Girls, her latest “acclaimed” writing venture ‘Nobody Walks‘ looks like it’s going to tackle some pretty similar themes.
Co-written with director Ry Russo-Young, ‘Nobody Walks’ has the token beautiful gamine navigating her way in the world, particularly in her relationships with older men, the familiar trappings of the upper-middle class (beautiful houses, jealousy) and a fixation on the artist’s process (here it’s sound design, which looks pretty interesting).
While Dunham doesn’t feature, John Krasinski and Olivia Thirlby do, along with the ever-paranoid sister from United States of Tara Rosemary Dewitt, Prior Walter Justin Kirk as her patient and Australian Rhys Wakefield as the beefcake tween infatuation.
‘Nobody Walks‘ won the special jury prize at Sundance and for all its Californian Krasinskiness looks like something of a cross between ‘It’s Complicated‘ and ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ or ‘The Lovely Bones.‘ But more likely none of the above. Watch the trailer and decide for yourself.
