"Sam makes you laugh more," humorous sorrow

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Led by indie muse Rachel Sennott, Ally Pankiw's first feature film about a comedian who's running out of humor has the charm of a generational drama.

If you let yourself be taken in, "I Used to Be Funny" revives the taste for the little generational "dramedy," especially thanks to its actress Rachel Sennott. (Wayna Pitch)

The indie sensations of the 2020s have some things in common. After Eva Victor's Sorry, Baby , a chronicle of female post-trauma (or even, in the vein of How to Have Sex , the series I May Destroy You ...), the first feature film by Canadian Ally Pankiw enters the dance of shattered anti-heroines, laughing on the verge of tears, and carries its era on its shoulders. A time when rape is no longer a subject of current events, seen in the crime section, but one of the forms of ordinary life. It slips into films with a furtive charm, full of teenage spirit, if we can still apply it.