Gabi On The Roof In July

Ah, youth! We can go on and on about the shallow hipsters that populate the films of Joe Swanberg et al, but at a certain point, perhaps while watching Lawrence Michael Levine’s wan, mildly aggravating Gabi on the Roof in July, we oldsters just have to throw up our hands and say, “I don’t get it.”

Gabi on the Roof in July is set in contemporary Brooklyn -- Hipster Central -- amid artistic types, where Gabi (Sophia Takal) has come home from Oberlin for the summer to crash in her brother, Sam’s (Levine) apartment. It’s clear that Gabi is a free spirit with an artistic temperament because she takes her clothes off frequently -- often in the pres...