Starring: Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Halley Feiffer, Scott Adsit
Director: Desiree Akhavan
Running Time: 86 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 6th 2015 (UK)

Appropriate Behavior is a proper audience divider. Desiree Akhavan’s Shirin is narcissistic, self-obsessed and shallow, but convinced she’s deep, complex and misunderstood. However, how you take the film depends on how self-aware you think it is. Is it on Shirin’s side and lauding the life of the tragically hip, or is it well aware of her shortcomings and essentially satirising it?

I’d safely say it’s the latter, but I can see why have assumed the former, as the film’s humour is dry as a bone and so it’s not too shocking some viewers have missed it. [Read more…]