The History of Concrete is definitely about concrete. But it’s not, for the most part, about its history.
Aside from explaining that it’s created via a combination of cement, water, sand, and stone, that it’s the second most-used material in the world (behind water), and that the oldest American street made from it dates back to 1891 and is in Ohio, it imparts few—ahem—concrete facts about the durable substance.
Instead, John Wilson’s big-screen debut fixates on concrete as a means of grappling with the fears plaguing him in the wake of the cancellation of his hit HBO series How to with John Wilson, whose format this amazingly funny and touching film—premiering at the Sundance Film Festival—replicates to a tee.
The post Sundance’s Funniest Film Is a Documentary About… Concrete? appeared first on The Daily Beast
