FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN World Cinema

Mike Gibisser’s auspicious debut feature includes so much original vision it’s hard not to feel a tremor of excitement a new voice in American cinema has arrived. FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN offers o meditation on young love and its delicacy, its hope and exhilaration, as well as its loneliness and naivete . Lillian lives o quiet, comfortable life of isolation, sharing an apartment with her grandmother Their dependence on one another is mutual, simultaneously making them whole and holding them back . Dan lives a more tortured solitude, making attempts at human connection in compulsive fits and starts. After a chance meeting, Lillian and Dan stumble their way toward one another in a love story that stutters, spits and wears its heart on its sleeve. Wonderfully awkward performances by Gretchen Akers, Jason Kean and Lucy Quinn fuel Gibisser’s world, in which the mundane is transcendent, and everyday people become radiant characters The writing credit is shared by Gibisser and his leads, and their semi-improvisational style makes for some powerful , truthful, deeply human moments. Seeking togetherness through tender yet tortuous routes, they find redemption in the small moments of connection to someone else on Earth.