Movie Details
Theatrical Release:September 9th, 1979
Original Language:English
Weltschmertz (1979)
15 minSep 9th, 1979
Seldom has depression been played to such comic effect The camera sits on a tripod considering Gibbons as he hunches over his kitchen table slugging vodka chain smoking and toying aimlessly with a halfeaten potato Morose and giggling by turns the filmmaker launches into a broken account of present unhappiness which is broken by extended cutaways to dying plants freeway traffic and TV soap operas J Hoberman The Village Voice
DirectorJoe Gibbons
