Tangles
Tangles

Tangles

Sun
18
Sun 18 Oct 4:30 PM

Odeon Star Semaphore: Cinema 1
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
103 Mins
October
Sun 18 Oct

Fri 23 Oct

If you’ve ever lost anyone dear to you, prepare to be ruined and rebuilt by director Leah Nelson’s astonishingly generous debut feature, Tangles. Relocating Sarah Leavitt’s best-selling graphic novel of the same name from Canada to the US, it features the vocal talents of Broad City star Abbi Jacobson as Sarah. An awkwardly cute illustrator, she’s landed a dream gig with a queer magazine and her big feels for biker Donimo (Samira Wiley) appear to be mutual. But on a trip home to see the parents, Sarah notices that her mum (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) appears uncharacteristically confused. While her dad (Bryan Cranston) thinks it’s nothing, Sarah’s worst fears are soon confirmed: her mum has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Brought to life in lush greyscale animation, Nelson’s emotional rollercoaster was rightly nominated for the Camera d’Or for best first feature at Cannes. Also featuring Wanda Sykes, Seth Rogen, Bowen Yang and the world’s worst/best rendition of Chrissie Hynde’s I’ll Stand by You, Tangles is a balm for broken hearts.