The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
Directed by Josh Safdie
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
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Compulsive and often reckless behavior is a through line in the Safdies’ filmography; from 2008’s The Pleasure of Being Robbed—concerning the misadventures of a female kleptomaniac—onward, they’ve dealt in men and women working desperately to stay one step ahead of consequences.
Ever since 2008’s “The Pleasure of Being Robbed,” these sibling filmmakers have excelled at burrowing inside the mindset of combustible characters driven to destructive tendencies just to survive another day.
Even as far back as his debut feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Safdie has had a fascination with charismatic, yet morally precarious or just downright unlikable protagonists in crises of their own making.
Good Time is the siblings’ third outing in Cannes – The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2007) and Daddy Longlegs (2010) both played in Directors’ Fortnight – and their first bow in the main competition.
Those filmmakers are Josh and Benny Safdie, brothers who came out of Boston University a decade ago and conquered Cannes with their first feature, “The Pleasure of Being Robbed” (2008).