![Alejandro (Julio Torres) turns to Elizabeth (Tilda Swinton) to help manage her husband's paintings as a way for him to hopefully get a him a gallery showing and some artistic respect in the indie film](/images/resized/images/news/2016/problemista-04-fixed_100_100.jpg)
Rating: 3 out of 4
Running Time: 104 minutes
This feature from A24 is opening exclusively at cinemas in major markets on Friday, March 22.
Every so often there is a comedy that divides viewers over its tone and approach. Typically, these pictures have an oddball sense of humor and are described as anything from quirky to more negatively, peculiar or twee. Problemista is one of those films. Either you’ll be able to get on its wavelength and be entertained by its eccentric characters and their strange behavior, or you’ll find its tone grating and difficult to endure.
It won’t speak to everyone, but it did put a smile on this reviewer’s face.
Alejandro (Julio Torres, who...