GHOST WORLD
Terry Zwigoff · 2001 · U.S. · 111 min
Get tickets at Film ForumBased on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes “Enid is a recent high school graduate who lives with her father (Bob Balaban) in a small apartment in Los Angeles and spends her days with her best friend, Rebecca (Scarlett Johannson), hanging out in coffee shops and record stores. Their main activity, though, is mocking—with a callow conviction worthy of Holden Caulfield—the phoniness and hypocrisy that surrounds them. Enid’s capacity for scorn is unlimited: her plucked eyebrows might illustrate a dictionary entry for ‘supercilious,’ and her quiet voice shoots darts of sarcasm in every direction... When boys gravitate to the less rigorously misanthropic (and conventionally prettier) Rebecca, Enid scares them away with her glowering superiority. One of the film’s narrative threads charts the growing distance between the two friends, as Rebecca gravitates toward a maturity that Enid regards as a fatal compromise.” – The New York Times