The Squid and the Whale

"Yeah it's Kafkaesque, cause it was written by Kafka."

After Jeff Daniel's fall from popularity and before Jesse Eisenberg became famous for his really good performance in The Social Network the two delivered the best performances of their careers (so far) as father and son Bernard and Walt Berkman coping with the shittiness that is divorce and joint custody. The acting, writing and sountrack make it more than worthwhile, but there's something unexplainable, perhaps that all the elements work well together making for a classic indie that is definitely influenced by new-wave French cinema and Woody Allen. It's also written and directed by a guy named Noah.