Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Despite bigger budgets and higher-profile casts, writer-directors Jay and Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Cyrus) have stayed true to their lo-fi, improvisational aesthetic, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home marks a sort of homecoming for the brothers, who themselves lived at their parents’ home in New Orleans while shooting this Baton Rouge-set family drama. The Duplasses make films about ordinary people and shoot for realism with moving results, but their style, all handheld camera work and tight close-ups, may suffer as their movies play wider on bigger screens....  read more