Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.

There’s a lot to be said for a low key indie and ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ is a good one, in a movie that also acts as one of Daisy Ridley’s first roles post ‘Star Wars’. In Rachel Lambert’s movie, she plays Fran, a distant and socially awkward office worker who frequently daydreams about dying. When a new start called Robert (Dave Merheje) joins the company she works for, she finds herself considering a different future for herself, and ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ explores Fran’s life as she tentatively explores a less isolated path.

The daydreams (or intersections to be more accurate) referred to in the title don’t appear to come because Fran is actually suicidal, but more from a place of boredom and isolation as she is living a life where she’s going nowhere. I felt the movie speaks quite well to that early 30s alienation that people can feel where life maybe hasn’t turned out as you expected it too, and the path to a better future is either unclear, too hard to achieve or perhaps isn’t something you’re particularly driven towards. Ridley is good in the central role, depicting well a woman going through the motions, before changing tack slightly as she begins to spend more time with Robert.

The office setting is perfectly captured and I can only assume Rachel Lambert has worked in this type of office environment before as she really nails the awkwardness and faux friendliness that can often permeate these places. That acts as a good backdrop for Fran’s life as it isn’t a place that is conducive to ambition and you can relate to why she has a lack of drive to do anything different as a result. ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ is a nice little indie movie about a woman who is tentatively pushed out her comfort zone to form a connection, and the melancholic tinge that runs throughout it is perfectly matched by Ridley’s performance.

Rating: 4/5

Directed By: Rachel Lambert

Starring: Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, Marcia DeBonis, Meg Stalter, Brittany O’Grady and Bree Elrod

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt16431966/