Language Lessons Review: Natalie Morales Directs a Platonic Romcom For the Zoom Era Language Lessons Review: Natalie Morales Directs a Platonic Romcom For the Zoom Era
Morales teams up with co-writer and co-star Mark Duplass for a friendship study that connects to the age of quarantine, even if it s not expressly about it.
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Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
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It’s nearly a year since Zoom became a household name brand, its boxy chat windows, variable resolution and capacity for technical glitches shaping how many communicated with friends, family and colleagues during a global pandemic to the extent that “Zoom fatigue” is now the defining buzz term of 2021 so far. A gentle relationship study playing out entirely through the cramped, sterile rectangles of a virtual chat app, actor-director Natalie Morales’ freshman feature “Language Lessons” arrives just as our collective patience for such corresponde