One wants to give the benefit of the doubt to “Dandelion,” a sweet, slight, impressionistic character study of a struggling musician with a luminous KiKi Layne at its center. The second feature written and directed by Nicole Riegel (after 2020’s “Holler”), it’s as handmade as the personal signatures in the end credits and as beautifully brooding as a movie can be with a score and songs by Bryce and Aaron Dessner of the indie rock stalwarts the National . Does it add up to less than the sum of its parts? Certainly.
But the parts are lovely enough to sustain the indulgent viewer..
