I’ll Be Around.
Director, Editor, Producer, Composer: Mike Cuenca
Writers: Dan Rojan, Mike Cuenca
Cinematographer: Jessica Gallant
If there ever was a movie that shows what my social life with friends was like, It’s this one. Watching the characters in this feature reminds me of friends I have, stories from people I know and even myself at times. I have played in bands before and there were a few similarities in this that were quite funny and bitter sweet when looking back. Although I am reminded highly of Richard Linklater’s debut Slacker as I watched it. Mike Cuenca’s I’ll Be Around doesn’t have quite the same structure. Instead of going from one character’s interactions with another to a totally new situation with all new people. Mike Cuenca gives you multiple stories and character archs in this epic that sort of plays like a punk rock version of Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson.
