The penultimate edition in its long-running Park City location, the Sundance Film Festival began today, and, as I note every year, the event is bellwether when it comes to an assessment of the American independent film scene.

Writer-director-actor James Sweeney crafts a bittersweet comedy centering on two grieving men seeking comfort in the strangest of places. Sweeney and co-star Dylan O’Brien play men who meet at a twin bereavement group and embark on a co-dependent friendship that pushes both to some uncomfortably funny places.