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FOURTEEN
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Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who runs through a series of brief but intense relationships. Mara, a less splashy personality than Jo, bounces among teacher aide jobs while trying to land a position in elementary education, and writes fiction in her spare time. She too has a transient romantic life, though she seems to settle down after meeting Adam, a mild-mannered software developer. It soon becomes apparent that Jo, despite her intellectual gifts, is unreliable in her professional life, losing and acquiring jobs at a troubling rate. Substance abuse may be responsible for Jo’s instability… but some observers suspect a deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to preserve herself, but never leaves behind her powerful childhood connection with Jo.
Dir: Dan Sallitt / 2020 / US / 94 min

“The diverging paths and seething conflicts of two lifelong friends, now young Brooklyn professionals, are explored deeply and poignantly in this deceptively calm melodrama, written and directed by Dan Sallitt.” —Richard Brody, New Yorker

“This is a wonderful, subtly devastating film from a voice in American independent cinema that will hopefully become better known.” — Ian Mantgani, Little White Lies

“A modest but gradually – and, in the end, greatly – affecting sketch of how even the closest of friendships can shift and wither over the years.” — David Ehrlich, indieWire