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Tiny Furniture
6.2
/10
2,441 Ratings

Synopsis

22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s New York City loft with a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page and a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.

Our take

A charming and sober expression of self-doubt, Tiny Furniture saw writer-director-star Lena Dunham follow her TV success with a marvel of no-budget ingenuity. Darker and more formally rigorous than her hit series Girls, it’s one of the key films of modern American indie cinema.