Katano (Stephen Adly Guirgis), his high school art teacher and mentor, in a long sequence where the latter winds up posing as a nude model to prove a point about life drawing. The humor here is more pitch-black than the Sattouf film, featuring an array of oddballs, freaks and geeks whom Robert crosses during his agonizing quest to become a successful comic book artist. This low-budget, very indie effort should find some love on the Croisette as well, and hopefully won’t be Kline’s last attempt at the helm. There’s very much a late ’90s or early aughts pre-digital vibe to Funny Pages, which was shot on 16mm by Safdie regular Sean Price Williams (credited with cinematography along with Hunter Zimny), and which recalls other graphic novel-inspired or adapted films like Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb and Art School Confidential, as well as the Paul Giamatti starrer American Splendor.Įven more so, the antics of its 17-year-old antihero, Robert (Daniel Zolghadri, Eighth Grade), who quits his comfy suburban lodgings to try and make it as a starving cartoonist in the bowels of Trenton, N.J., are reminiscent of French bande dessinée artist and occasional director Riad Sattouf’s hilariously dark Les beaux gosses, which was a hit in Cannes back in 2009. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Directors’ Fortnight)Ĭast: Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel, Marcia Debonis, Michael Townsend Wright
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