THE GOODTIMESKID American Directions

Director Azazel Jacobs’s sophomore film is shot with stark simple imagery highlighting the easygoing lives of his three thoroughly entertaining characters at a pitchfork in their lives.

THE GOODTIMESKID is the relaxed episodic story of two men with the same name who cross paths one day and the girl between them who gets the chance to escape her daily routine. As their lives intertwine and unravel, they embark on a personal odyssey together, affected only by those they encounter along the way.

Jacobs (NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW), son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, draws on influences from Jarmusch to his own father, but has an original voice, clear and resonant. He uses subtle shifts in sound and music, a voyeuristic camera and unexpected narrative jump cuts to create a unique vision of the people inhabiting the engaging universe, he and his cohorts have created.