After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
There's not much to it, but you do sense, after watching it, that this filmmaker might someday make something very good, once she starts looking beyond her own immediate vicinity.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
24 Dec 2010
fresh:
Dunham has a sharp eye for visual composition and a sharp ear, too.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Jan 2011
fresh:
Sharp observations, thin on entertainment value -- "Mumblecore" at its heart.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan 2011
fresh:
Just when you think "Tiny Furniture" is of the nothing-happens school of indie-filmdom, something more dramatic happens.
– Claude Peck,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
27 Jan 2011
fresh:
A deft self-portrait of someone who hasn't reached the point where they can take themselves seriously.