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Somebody Up There Likes Me

Max never seems to age. Over thirty-five years of marriages, breakups, a child, jobs, and funerals, he stays the same drowsy slacker while the people around him get older — including Lyla, the woman he loves, and Sal, the best friend who loves her too. Austin indie auteur Bob Byington (Harmony and Me) turns that premise into a deadpan fable about time, luck, and how little we notice either one passing. Keith Poulson plays Max with perfect blankness; Jess Weixler gives Lyla a slow-burn heartbreak. The film belongs, in no small part, to Nick Offerman as Sal: a steakhouse philosopher whose dry, devastating asides steal every scene he’s in. Premiered at SXSW, with animated bridges by Bob Sabiston and Offerman also producing, it’s a short, strange comedy about a man who lives forever and still can’t quite grow up.

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