From the director of a Carly Rae Jepsen music video, comes Jason Bateman playing an insufferable bastard. Let's start off with the positives. The cast is great and all of the acting was really good. The camera work, though mostly boring, had flashes of influence from better directors. Right, so The Longest Week is just under 90 minutes, but it feels like so much longer. Peter Glanz, who both wrote and directed the film, seems to either think he was making a canonical American Literature Classic in film form or trying to display how cultured he is "The Classics". Most of the characters are constantly bringing up and referencing classic literature, music and plays. There is no clear time setting for the film, but everything looks old and everyone is talking about old pop culture things, so I'm not sure if it's actually set in the 60's or 70's or if this is just another way for Glanz to try and impress us. The story is incredibly contrived and derivative and we don't really get much to work with. The little bit that does happen is predicable and unfulfilling and at least a third of the scenes feel like they are repeated from earlier in the film. Most of the time is spent with pseudo-intellectual conversation. For some reason, The Longest Week has a narrator to deliver exposition, but also has Bateman constantly talk to his therapist and chauffeur for the same reason. I've seen other reviews mention that The Longest Week rips off plot points and cinematography cues from Wes Anderson and Woody Allen. I think it's just another way Glanz is trying to prop himself up. The entire movie is just references to other movies and art forms mixed with constant attempts to be meta. It's pretentious and boring and a total waste of a stellar cast. It hits all of the cliches of both a romance and everything you would expect from a movie that thinks it's a "Film". For a first feature film, Peter Glanz seems to think too highly of himself as both a writer and a director. I have not watch the music video for Carly Rae Jepsen's I Really Like You, but maybe that's his calling.