Over the course of one hot post-graduate summer Hannah (Greta Gerwig) falls precariously in and out of love. A breaker of hearts and chronically dissatisfied, she finds herself drifting away from her newly unemployed boyfriend (Mark Duplass, The Puffy Chair) and drawn to her co-workers, Matt (Kent Osborne) and Paul (Andrew Bujalski).

Conceived without a traditional script, this triumph of improvisational acting was born from intimate collaboration between director Joe Swanberg (Kissing on the Mouth, Nights and Weekends) and a cast that includes a number of up-and-coming independent filmmakers, including leading player Greta Gerwig (co-director with Swanberg of last year's Nights and Weekends), Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation, Beeswax), Ry Russo-Young (You Wont Miss Me) and Todd Rohal (The Guatemalan Handshake). Whether they have the necessary front-of-camera charisma and improvisational talent is another matter and has certainly been a subject for on-line discussion, and that's putting it mildly. Either way, Hannah Takes the Stairs is, we are assured, a delicate look at friendship, ambition and the pursuit of happiness that heralds the return of a truly independent form of American filmmaking.

Hannah Takes the Stairs is to be released on DVD in the UK on 27th April 2009 by ICA Films at the RRP of £12.99. No Extras have been listed.