FRI FEB 2, 2024 7:00 PM THE SWEET EAST $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3| Q&A with filmmaker Sean Price Williams and actor Talia Ryder Limited Engagement Tickets are no longer on sale for this event. This event is near being sold out, but more could be available as carts expire. Please check again in a few minutes.
ABOUT THE FILM: Smack in the middle of a high school trip to our nation’s capital, self-possessed teen Lillian (Talia Ryder) breaks off from her classmates, kicking off a journey straight down the rabbit hole of the New Weird America. In the rollicking feature debut for both director Sean Price Williams (known for his grotty-beautiful cinematography for films by Alex Ross Perry and the Safdie brothers) and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, the Eastern seaboard becomes the site for a deranged and hilarious autopsy of contemporary U.S. life in which Lillian becomes an indifferent sounding board to all manner of loquacious, callous oddballs, including a sexually numb, white supremacist pedant (Simon Rex) and a pair of wildly excitable indie filmmakers (Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy O. Harris). Tying it all together is a performance of remarkable poise and confidence by Ryder (memorable in Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always), who provides the tender center to this cockeyed exhibition of all-purpose mockery. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia COUNTRY: USA