Since I first saw this movie it has become a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Even though I hate to admit it, I find myself fascinated by hipster characters and their life in movies. So I was wondering if anyone could help find other movies with the same vibe - creative, thrift shopping, record collecting people?
I've seen Frances Ha and Amélie which are the only ones that come to mind.
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- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (though it's set in the 1990s, it has a modern hipster feel)
- 500 Days of Summer
- Juno
Ghost World. Though I'm not sure if I'd truly call Enid a hipster (not the tatooed, fixie-riding breed anyway) more of a social outsider who rejects mainstream stuff. The other main character (played by Steve Buscemi) is a big record and old memorabilia collector but he's a lonely middle-aged nerd who is obsessed with jazz and early 20th century culture. But I recommend it as a film in general, I adore it.
shareI've got a couple of suggestions which don't have the same tone as While We're Young at all, but are equally valid (I'd say moreso) depictions of contemporary hipster types.
Joe Swanberg's film Drinking Buddies has a fair few of them (vinyl, craft beer, beards etc.), though it's much more realistic and doesn't really comment on that sort of thing one way or another. It's just who some of the characters are. Great film, too, I think.
Rick Alverson's excellent The Comedy, however, is all about them and how the veneer of irony permeating every interaction they have with the world and each other just wrecks their ability to actually do or feel anything meaningful. It's not "quirky" like Amélie or Frances Ha, it's sombre and scathing. It's where this film should've gone instead of copping out the way it did. If you just want to see people doing hipstery things, you'll get that too, but it'd be missing the point somewhat.