One Percent More Humid

2017, 1080hd

Johnny's comments:

One Percent More Humid is a drama about two friends. One of them, Catherine (Julia Garner) has arrived back in town to visit the other, Iris (Juno Temple), who still lives and goes to college in their old home town. But things aren't the same and the main reason for that is because of an incident a few years previous where a car accident they were involved in ended in the death of another friend, Mae (Olivia Luccardi). Iris is doing her thesis on poetry and she becomes close to her supervisor, Gerald (Alessandro Nivola), who's having issues with his absent wife (Maggie Siff). Iris and Gerald eventually begin an affair. Catherine and Iris are drifting apart, so Catherine decides to seek the company of Mae's brother Billy (Philip Ettinger) who despises the girls, but instead, Catherine throws herself at Billy, which also leads to an affair. Both relationships are doomed but not before the truth about the accident is unveiled and has a devastating effect on Catherine, but in times like these, it's good to have a friend like Iris to lean on.

OK drama, nothing special and fairly reminiscent of the director's previous movie, The Lifeguard. In in fact the two films have fairly similar plots, in that someone goes back to their old home town and begins an illicit affair. I pretty much watch anything Juno Temple is in, so this was a no-brainer but honestly One Percent More Humid is nothing special. And I was surprised that Juno and Julia weren't playing sisters, they definitely could have. Baffling title too, taken from a throwaway line in the movie.

Juno Temple film clips (collages below)

Julia Garner's butt makes a distant guest appearance in one of the clips