Mail Order Wife

Andrew Gurland and Huck Botko's bleakly comic mockumentary revolves around shallow filmmaker Andrew (Gurland), whose documentary about a doorman and his Burmese mail-order bride turns into an inadvertent exploration of his own unsavory inclinations and unattractive capacity for self-delusion. Tired of the bar scene, portly, boorish Adrian Martin (Adrian Martinez) turns to "international matchmaking company" Paradise Girls and begins corresponding with Lichi (Eugenia Yuan). Adrian doesn't have much going for him, but he makes sure to emphasize his few assets: He works in the fields of "security and property management," owns a car and has a shabby little house with a ...