Two Plains & a Fancy

Name: Two Plains & a Fancy
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 8, 2019
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 59
Cast: André Frechette III, Benjamin Crotty, Kim-Anh Schreiber, Laetitia Dosch, Libby Gery

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Factory 13 | Release Date: March 8, 2019

Starring: André Frechette III, Benjamin Crotty, Kim-Anh Schreiber, Laetitia Dosch, Libby Gery, María Cid, Marianna McClellan, Michael Murphy, Travis Nutting

Summary: Colorado, 1893: a trio of New York city slickers—a hippy-dippy mystic (Marianna McClellan), a French geologist (Laetitia Dosch), and a foppish artist (Benjamin Crotty)—wander the desert in search of the relaxing waters of the hot springs, along the way encountering from-the-future time travelers, kinky sex ghosts, spirit cats, and a pair ofColorado, 1893: a trio of New York city slickers—a hippy-dippy mystic (Marianna McClellan), a French geologist (Laetitia Dosch), and a foppish artist (Benjamin Crotty)—wander the desert in search of the relaxing waters of the hot springs, along the way encountering from-the-future time travelers, kinky sex ghosts, spirit cats, and a pair of surprisingly fashionable cowboys. Shot on shimmering, sun-splashed 16mm, this hallucinogenic Old West road movie meanders in a blissful stoner haze from the wryly funny to the cosmic.… Expand

Director: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

Genre(s): Comedy

Runtime: 90 min

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Steve Macfarlane

Mar 7, 2019

No description can do justice to its best moments, which render the absurd and sublime one and the same. Read full review

Richard Brody

Mar 7, 2019

With special effects of a startling simplicity—the filmmakers launch the action into cosmic realms. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Mar 7, 2019

Two Plains & a Fancy is a cosmic joke forged on a Kickstarter budget. To paraphrase Jessica Rabbit, it made me laugh. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Mar 7, 2019

Comedy is complicated and contextual, and the line between intentional and unintentional humor becomes confusing when the former mimics the latter. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Allison Shoemaker

Mar 8, 2019

Inflate its profundity, and you’re part of the joke; Dismiss its pleasures and layers, and you’ll miss a strange and sometimes rewarding experience. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 7, 2019

The mode of humor is close to cliquish anticomedy, and viewers not attuned to it may feel like there’s a joke they’re missing. Read full review

The Playlist Lena Wilson

Mar 7, 2019

These characters are undoubtedly supposed to be parodies of themselves, but their collective unrepentant narcissism broods more resentment than laughter. By the end of the feature, it’s hard not to cringe every time somebody talks. Read full review

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