Heather is too passive-aggressive to tell the director herself that she no longer wants to act in his movie, despite having more or less promised that she would.

Katz zeroes in on their unspoken power dynamic in the opening scene when Heather sends Jill into a restaurant to meet with a film director she doesn’t want to see. The two act like best friends even though Heather is paying Jill to be around. Gemini devotes its first half-hour to observing the relationship between a movie star, Heather (Zoë Kravitz), and her personal assistant Jill (Lola Kirke). Still, I’m glad the movie exists I’d sooner watch an honest and sensitive failure than a cynical and calculated one like Eli Roth’s recent Death Wish remake. But the mood is so languid that it overwhelms anything else-aiming for a tone poem on the emptiness of fame a la Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere or The Bling Ring, Katz just delivers emptiness. Writer-director Aaron Katz ( Quiet City, Cold Weather) establishes up some plausible relationships and a fairly grounded sense of place he also makes a half-hearted attempt at telling a mystery story. The low-budget drama Gemini (which is currently playing at the Arclight and the AMC River East) is a 93-minute wisp of a movie that doesn’t seem to unfold so much as evaporate.

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