1996 · comedy · drama
Trees Lounge
Directed by Steve Buscemi1h 35m1996
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Our read: Trees Lounge (1996) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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“You want unflinching barfly melancholy with Buscemi's deadpan humanity.”
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