Kajillionaire showcases Miranda July’s trademark weirdness


Writer/director Miranda July’s first feature film, 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, was a profoundly weird movie that earned her lots of acclaim. Her second, 2011’s The Future, was equally strange, but not quite as successful. Nine years later, she’s finally back with her third film, Kajillionaire, that has her trademark absurdity and, for the first time, a top-notch cast. The strangely named Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) is the daughter of two…

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