Cashback

You see this poster and you think, hey, this movie will be

A. Thoughtful
B. Vigorous
C. Puerile
D. Esoteric
E. Droll

Obviously, the answer is A.

Yes, a thoughtful, kind comedy more rapt and wondering than serious, although it is also serious, its meditations on love, beauty, and experience interrupted only at intervals by stupid hysterical slapstick. Manufactured, improbable ending but by that point I was too charmed to care. A nice little find: its plot is spontaneous but controlled, its story patient but purposive, its mood plaintive but never grave, its characters broad but likable in their miniature irregular orbits. And the lead looks like Andy Murray.

Anyway, available for instant viewing on Netflix.

Slothrop: I picked A because I didn't know what the other words meant. Hurray!

Koko: You picked A because you were afraid that beauty may be painstaking, childish, intellectually remote, or reservedly amusing. Besides, any reader of Samuel Johnson cannot credibly plead ignorance of the meaning of the word "droll," which the master defines, as a noun, as "one whose business is to raise mirth by petty tricks."