In the storied history of coming-of-age cringe dramedies, “Brian” is a warm, well-earned hug.
Like “Didi,” or “The Edge of Seventeen,” the perpetual suck of awkward adolescence is front and center in this indie, which made its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on Saturday. It’s a film dedicated to the cafeteria outsiders, the woefully unpopular and those of us who publicly failed to fake our way into any semblance of coolness. In director Will Ropp’s statement, he says, “Brian lives at the calculation between being yourself and socially safe.” So it does, with breathtaking honesty, in all the bathroom mirror affirmations and crippling panic attacks that…
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