The breakout film Tiny Furniture by one of America’s youngest female talents, 25-year director-writer-actor Lena Dunham, gets a home entertainment release in the UK. Already enjoying cult status in the US and securing Dunham her own HBO television series (Girls), Tiny Furniture will be released on DVD and VOD by Independent Distribution on 28 May, following its nationwide theatrical release in March 2012.
The knockout existential comedy follows Aura (played by Dunham) as she returns home from university to her mother’s Manhattan loft with: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her YouTube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself, a dying hamster and her tail between her legs. Aura quickly careens into her old/new life taking us on a wildly imaginative ride through romantic humiliation and post-university confusion. Lena Dunham wrote, directed and stars in Tiny Furniture, which was shot in Dunham’s real-life family home, starring Dunham’s mother (renowned photographer Laurie Simmons) and her sister Grace Dunham as Nadine.
Tiny Furniture celebrated its world premiere at the 2010 South-by-Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for “Best Narrative Feature” and Dunham took home the festival’s breakout award for emerging narrative woman director. The film has garnered Dunham comparisons to the likes of filmmaker Miranda July and comedian Tina Fey, as well as the hit series Seinfeld. She has been hailed as “the Woody Allen of Generation Y“ (Screen International) and the “future of screen comedy” (Total Film).
Now, this looks awesome.
