Director: Joanna Arnow
Joanna Arnow writes, directs, and stars in this 2024 American comedy, a wry portrait of a young woman going through the motions of an unglamorous life in Brooklyn.
What is The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed about?
The film follows an emotionally guarded young Brooklynite whose corporate day job barely registers and whose on-and-off arrangement with an older, only mildly interested partner offers no more spark than her spreadsheet-filled workday. Visits home compound the flatness: her parents' New York bluntness leaves little room for comfort or praise. There's no crisis to resolve here, just a string of small, dry indignities that curdle into something quietly aching by the end.
Cast & crew
Arnow, doubling as writer-director, plays the lead with a deliberately inert comic timing that carries most scenes. Scott Cohen brings a distracted, low-key menace to the older partner, while Babak Tafti, Peter Vack, and Michael Cyril Creighton round out a rotating cast of coworkers and acquaintances. Alysia Reiner appears in a supporting role as one of the family's more exasperated voices.
Context & significance
Arnow's earlier short films and features circled similar territory: bodies, boredom, and the awkward comedy of intimacy stripped of romance, and this feature refines that voice into a tighter, more confident shape. Shot on a visibly modest budget with static, observational framing, the film owes more to American independent comedy and workplace deadpan than to conventional relationship drama, using restraint rather than incident to build its tone.
Where & how to watch
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed streams on K-Time with Farsi subtitles and a Persian dub track, alongside the original English audio. The film's page is free to browse, and watching it requires only a quick, free K-Time account login, with the interface fully available in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora audience.