2007 · comedy · romance · music
Flakes
Directed by Michael Lehmann1h 24m2007
Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios, an aspiring capitalist rips off their concept.
Our read: Flakes (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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