A suicidal male and a Scrabble-obsessed female with quirks, Marty (Eric Hailey) and Zoe (Dana Pupkin), might sound like an unlikely pairing, but in the world of indie rom-com they're ideal twenty-something candidates for magic to happen.
Qwerty is really only a few steps up from student film in some ways, so there's no fancy post-production trickery and the construction of the whole is flawed technically, but none of that matters. It tells a simple story of two simple people in a heart-warming and funny way. And really, how could you not love a film in which the protagonist shouts, "You’re better than your underwear!"?
3 parallel plays out of 5
