REGINALD HARKEMA IN PERSON!

In his third film, Reginald Harkema transplants Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise to a ramshackle house in Toronto, where bohemians Dan and Linda eke out an existence scavenging in garbage dumps and rummaging through yard sales. Their evenings are spent getting listlessly baked and staring silently into space. But as the film opens, tragedy strikes: their dealer has been busted. Enter the enigmatic young Susan, a winsome hipster who rescues Dan from the perils of sobriety by offering him organically-grown BC bud. Her arrival re-invigorates Dan, and he clumsily tries to seduce her with counterculture memorabilia, though there’s an air of mystery about her . . . Harkema directs with pop-art brio, loading Monkey Warfare with visual references to Seventies exploitation movies, and the film is driven by a sly comic take on bohemia, counterculture politics, and disillusionment. Equal parts political comedy, elegy, and domestic drama, Monkey Warfare exudes considerable scruffy charm, much of it due to the performers’ evident glee. – Steve Gravestock

 Rated 14A.