Qwerty premieres at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday, July 28th. Filmmaker Bill Sebastian is scheduled to attend. Qwerty is a film about lonely concepts of people and their quirkyexploits. I use the term “concepts of people” to illustrate the type ofpicture that director Bout lonely concepts of people and their quirkyexploits. I use the term “concepts of people” to illustrate the type ofpicture that director Bill Sebastian and writer Juliet McDaniel attemptto construct. Zoe (Dana Pupkin) and Marty (Eric Hailey) are defined inbroad strokes, providing the audience with two lead characters whohaven’t much depth beyond their set of indie-inspired eccentricities.Much like the recently acclaimed Safety Not Guaranteed, the charactersand construction of Qwerty fail to resonate as anything more than ahodgepodge of half-baked Sundance film festival pictures
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