“Videoworks”
Friday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, at 5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 19, at 5 p.m.

“Me and you and everyone we know”
Friday, Nov. 18, at 9 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, at 7 and 9 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m.

The experimentalism of Miranda July’s hit indie comes in the form of an authentic sense of rhythm, quirky character detail and the kind of dialogue so honest that we are not familiar with it.

While some of her characters seem brilliantly and intriguingly multi-layered, others tend to inhabit a more obvious, archetypal world. She alternates the subtle depiction of human fragility and isolating self-consciousness with less delicate portrayals and evident criticism of the art world.

The film’s first half feels considerably more vibrant, before we get sick of the soundtrack and before the vignettes become more “Ghost World” or “Happiness” than paradigm-free avant-gardism. “Me and you and everyone we know” may also look a little too polished for a story so confident of its reason for being and initially oblivious to formulaic structures.

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