Living in Oblivion Reviews

Not so long ago, I saw the last 2 directing efforts by Tom DiCillo, the interesting but ultimately disappointing ‘Delirious’ and the even more underwhelming and borderline abysmal ‘Double Whammy’, and it seems that the guy has really lost his touch which is too bad. Indeed, 20 years ago, he got his breakthrough with this indie gem and I have been following his work ever since. The story is that DiCillo managed to have a decent critical success with ‘Johnny Suede’ (an obscure indie feature starring Brad Pitt before he became famous)  and he quickly got the greenlight for his follow up feature which would eventually become ‘Box of Moonlight’. However, after years of  troubles in pre-production, he decided to make a movie about how frustrating this whole process was and the end-result was this second film. Back then, I must have been 15 years old when I saw it and I thought it was just hilarious. Indeed, Steve Buscemi just got his breakthrough a couple of years before with ‘Reservoir Dogs’and it was just really neat that the guy was playing the lead for once. To conclude, even though it is nowadays rather forgotten, it is actually a really nice comedy and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.