Art of being straight

The Art of Being Straight won the Audience award at a Dublin G&L film festival. Maybe the city's movie-goers loved the 2008 US movie's shortness. It's a 70-minute vanity project by producer-writer-director and lead actor Jesse Rosen.

He presents himself from flattering angles as Paul, a half-self-delusional womanising photographer who leaves the East Coast for L.A., where he gets a couch in a college mate's apartment and beddings in the home of his advertising agency's gay boss. An ex-girlfriend from the East has turned lesbian, his male friend's mates are boorish young men, and he's confused about his identity. He parties and simpers amid well-lit technically-competent settings.

It's probably meant to be a dramedy. If it were worse, it might be amusing. It's just a yawn.