“Chasing Summer time” could be the film that cements filmmaker Josephine Decker’s standing as an auteur within the authentic sense of the phrase. She’s not a model identify with a set of aesthetics that the common movie fan can establish in a social media put up. As a substitute, her inventive fingerprints are current throughout a movie that originated from someplace aside from her personal thoughts.
Decker just isn’t contorting a private venture from comic Iliza Shlesinger into the avant-garde stylings of her earlier movies and even the assured formalism of indie breakouts like “Madeline’s Madeline” and “Shirley.” She’s making use of her artistry to a personality’s coming-of-middle-age story.