How to Live Together

An anxious, ensemble comedy about the frustrations of co-habitation and the rhythms of everyday life. Six roommates share a cramped four bedroom apartment. One moves out. Another moves in. In the process, the precarious balance of their routines is comically disrupted.

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"Morning in a shared apartment in Los Angeles – the cast brings together a range of actors from California’s independent cinema scene – filmed in black and white in a syncopated edit: How to Live Together invents a burlesque of our time, one of gentrification and precarity, of overcrowding and saturation; a burlesque of sound and space, where bodies and space are fragmented to the extreme, equally precise and devastating. Undoubtedly an exercise in style, an anxious satire of frantic living conditions, it is also a strange group portrait, a kind of micro-society. Each person leans toward a caricature of themselves, asserting autonomy and displaying personality amid a cacophony of objects, words, and gestures overlapping in an irritating chaos that somehow achieves its own bizarre harmony. The group thus formed – in and out of tune – is a monster in and of itself, faced with the unexpected arrival of a new roommate, the Other it cannot absorb." — Florence Maillard, programmer, Festival Entrevues Belfort