Thu. August 4, 2016
By Gregg Shapiro
At college, Marcus, an excellent student, rooms with dorm-mates Ron (Philip Ettinger) and "queer" Bert (Ben Rosenfield), both juniors. He is also recruited to pledge the campus' sole Jewish fraternity, but he decides to pass on the opportunity. While working in the school library, he encounters troubled blonde shiksa goddess Olivia (Sarah Gadon), who is also in one of his classes. Unlike any girl he ever encountered in Newark, Marcus is immediately smitten. The draw, as it turns out, is mutual, but after an unexpected sexual encounter during their first date, Marcus has difficulty reconciling the event with his attraction to Olivia.
What follows are Marcus' attempts to deal with his studies, the fragile Olivia, his unsympathetic dorm-mates, the deteriorating situation with his parents at home, the sudden interest that Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts) has taken in him, and a case of appendicitis. Indignation, like Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, is one of those rare occasions where the source material, the screenplay, the direction and the performances, all blend to create an experience that genuinely transports the viewer to another time and place.
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