伊利亚(马莫多·阿西 Mamoudou Athie 饰)非常热爱葡萄酒文化,凭借着自己的努力,他考取了发证率非常低的品酒师证书,然而,伊利亚的父亲路易斯(考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰)却并没有为儿子的成就感到开心,因为他并不希望伊利亚去捣鼓什么葡萄酒,他可指望着儿子继承家里代代相传的烧烤店呢。
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.