Dante Hicks thought he had a day off but instead he had to stand in for someone at work. It’s a boring day for him at a dilapidated supermarket somewhere in New Jersey, for the viewer the start of a bizarre comedy in which everything seems to go wrong. To compound the disaster, his beloved Caitlin marries someone else. is a simple low-budget film shot in black & white. Its charm is primarily in its laconic, humorously philosophical dialogues, the original jokes and the nonchalant acting. And in the hyper-realistic location. The young maker was able to base it on his own experience, because like his heroes he worked as a shop assistant while studying and had to keep earning on the side as he made this film. won the prize for the best film at Cannes last year in the Critics’ Week.
