Film Review – My Old Ass

Time travel, or something along those lines, goes for the heart in the coarsely titled “My Old Ass.” Writer/director Megan Park (“The Fallout”) looks to tap into generational dread with the feature, which concerns an 18-year-old woman confronted with her 39-year-old self after a night of psychedelics in the woods. While it initially seems like the stuff of a comedy, Park doesn’t have much interest in big laughs. Instead, she aims for big feels with the picture, which examines the emptiness of aging and the joys of love, working to create something life-affirming from askew perspectives. “My Old Ass” has storytelling issues and performance bigness to endure, but smaller moments tend to count the most in the effort, with Park clearly working something personal out on the screen as she details private pain and secret fears facing the characters. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com