Meanwhile

The film concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a building project. He produces advertising for the internet, he has written a fat novel, and he is not a bad drummer either. But success never comes his way, because he cannot stop himself solving other people’s problems; his own aims are forever left half done by his willingness and his ability to go out of his way for others. The film offers this as neither a fault nor a virtue. The account moves through a single day, walking from place to place across the city. D.J. Mendel plays the lead in Hal Hartley’s sixty minute American film, completed in 2011.