How To Make Friends
MAY
“Your problem is that you’re so inconsistent.”
BLU-RAY DEBUT Its ideal audience may be young goth women who sell creepy paintings of Victorian dolls on Etsy, but this dark fairy tale also has broader appeal: anyone who’s felt lonely or alienated should be able to feel for its outsider protagonist.
Riffing on Frankenstein, but combining Victor and his creation in one figure, it’s a story Mary Shelley might have created if she’d been born in 1982, not 1797, and hung out in alternative dives, not Swiss mansions. Angela Bettis is veterinarian May, who has a love of sewing, and great difficulty forging friendships or romantic relationships. After a series of disappointments, she hits upon a solution: take the best parts of the people in her life, and put them together. Literally.