Gillian Robespierre’s ‘Landline’ Is a Serious Story of Comic Miscommunication

There’s a short scene in Gillian Robespierre’s Landline that may as well be science fiction for younger audiences, in which protagonist Dana (Jenny Slate) stops at a phone booth (!) on her lunch break, pops in a quarter, and checks the messages on her voicemail remotely (!!). The film is a period piece, set in […]