Friday, 3 June 2022

VOD: One Night Off (dir: Martin Schreier, 2021)

""What an adventure, right?"

Amazon's first German movie production is a well-meaning but rather tame comedy that follows an immature stay-at-home dad left to look after the baby while his wife is out of town, who then embarks on an ill-advised adventure through city nightlife with his best mate and baby in tow to go to a gig and his despotic sister-in-law in hot pursuit.  It may be a very generic and low-stakes tale, but Emilio Sakraya makes for a genial protagonist as the feckless young father. The whole film is rather insipid and played in the broadest of comedic strokes that is pleasant enough but - apart from the cute baby factor - leaves little impression.

 

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