Directed with a fluid, crisp sense of energy and musicality by Canning... Carter's performance Her performance brings real lived-in emotion to this charming friendship tale.
We've seen movies built around this kind of story a million times and while Jordan Canning's film Suck It Up never makes any attempts to transcend its genre trappings, it's at least sporadically amusing.
Suck It Up is true to life in how it shows two different personalities struggling to engage with each other. It's well acted, but as so often happens with Canadian films, the landscape is the greater part of the story.
There's much to be mined from this vein of friendship and loss, but Canadian director Jordan Canning backs into the story, leaving us grasping for clues to things that should be obvious.
Twee indie movie tropes abound. If this film actually does have anything new to say, it's hard to fathom from under this sea of mumblecore conventions.
A buddy-comedy wrapped in a British Columbia road trip, Suck It Up figures out how to find the humor in emotionally distressing situations that might elude any less determined characters than the film's two protagonists.
