As the credits make clear, this was originally a play, and it shows: very talky, with lots of opportunity for over-the-top scenery-chewing (to which co-protagonist Nicole Beharie commits with great relish). The titular apartment is the setting for most of the proceedings, with occasional flash-backs that round out the narrative.

Beharie is amazing to watch in the role of whip-smart yet highly unstable Piper. Christopher J Domig does well in the role of the conflicted man who reaches out to her. The slow-moving narrative hinges on gradually-drawn-out revelations, all of which occur in a highly-charged environment commandeered by a very skeptical and very off-kilter young woman wielding a gun. When these revelations finally arrive, so much energy has been expended in their extraction, one anticipates a cathartic release of all the emotional tension that has been built up so far.

What does transpire is fiendishly frustrating ---in a very good way--- and must be experienced from start to finish in order to be fully savored.

This is a small jewel of a film that fits in nicely with previous works by Hal Hartley and Tom Noonan.

Almost unbearable pseudo-intellectual nonsense. It has an original story line, and I appreciated it's mood and pace, but it is so full of non-sequiturs and philosophical gibberish that I felt like I was reading someone's embarrassing middle school poetry. Full of meretricious profundity. I understand that I may sound arrogant (especially when using a term like meretricious) and harsh, but I actually couldn't help from feeling nauseous and cringing. Cannibal Holocaust was easier to watch. I can only see it as thought provoking or emotionally resonant for somebody that is too lazy to pick up a treatise or postmodern novel, or watch an O'Neill play. Also some overacting, enough that I was well aware that I was watching a movie with actors,as well.

I thought this movie had some serious powerhouse acting in it. Dialogue heavy which initially made me fear for boredom to come. But it never came. I was impressed.

Nicole was superb.

I would surely hope that this was at least considered for some sort of awards, and if not, it was sadly missed.

I don't want to give spoilers because I want to tell people to watch. To pay attention. To see the realism with the acting.

I hope the director does many more things in the future. I look forward to them.