Streaming Now: ‘Gemini’

Through the years it hasn’t proven too difficult to make Los Angeles look cool on screen, but director Aaron Katz creates an especially sleek fantasia.|

“Gemini” balances on two women: the do-it-all personal assistant Jill LeBeau (Lola Kirke) and her starlet employer, Heather Anderson (Zoë Kravitz), an actress who mostly refuses to act. Heather is at least a proper Gemini - she has the sigil of the zodiac sign tattooed on her spine.

In the opening minutes, multiple aggrieved men threaten to kill Heather, so she asks Jill to borrow her pistol using that classic line, “I’m 99.9 percent not going to use it.” Friends: the gun goes off. Heather collapses in a pool of blood. And Jill was with Heather around the time of the murder and has a very unconvincing alibi… but soft-boiled Detective Ahn (John Cho) is passive enough to let her slip away.

Jill makes herself unfindable in Los Angeles in a very amusing manner - she dyes her hair blonde and takes public transportation. She meets classic Hollywood characters around town: the agent who demands that Jill put out a press release while the subject of a murder investigation, and the screenwriter who approaches the crime by asking which potential killer would make for the best story.

Through the years it hasn’t proven too difficult to make Los Angeles look cool on screen, but director Aaron Katz creates an especially sleek fantasia. If nothing else, it’s fun to relax with Keegan DeWitt’s slick score as the sunsets, palm trees, and motorcycles stream past.

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