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I USED TO GO HERE – Review by Carol Cling

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Carol Cling 0 Comments cindy gold, Gillian Jacobs, i used to go here, Jemaine Clement, kris rey

Contrary to conventional wisdom, you can go home again. But you might not feel at home when you get there. That’s the premise — and, ultimately, the point — of I Used to Go Here, writer-director Kris Rey’s genial, generally insightful character study of a flailing writer whose return to her small-town alma mater provides a temporary escape from her collapsing life.

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I USED TO GO HERE (SXSW2020) – Review by Nell Minow

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Nell Minow 0 Comments AWFJ SXSW2020 Project, Gillian Jacobs, i used to go here, Jemaine Clement, kris rey

Imagine visiting the house where you lived as a child and standing next to the marks on the doorway where your parents measured your growth each year. All around us are invisible marks that measure where we are and every so often, usually unexpectedly, we get a chance to see exactly how far we have — and haven’t gone. Whether we want to or not.