(Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.
This week’s question: With 2019 almost half-over, what is the best movie performance of the year so far?
Kaitlyn Dever (“Booksmart”)
Deany Cheng (@dennynotdeeny), Freelance
I’ve turned over Kaitlyn Dever’s performance in “Booksmart” in my head again and again over the past month or so, and every time I consider it, I find myself impressed even more. It isn’t the showiest turn–hell, it isn’t even the most immediately memorable performance in its own movie–but Dever’s subtly funny, eternally awkward Amy is the connective tissue that keeps a film that occasionally feels like a series of stitched-together music videos from spiraling too far off the deep end. From drug trips to heartbreaks to cringe-inducing romantic encounters, Dever switches gears with a subtle finesse that feels both natural and hilariously unexpected.
This week’s question: With 2019 almost half-over, what is the best movie performance of the year so far?
Kaitlyn Dever (“Booksmart”)
Deany Cheng (@dennynotdeeny), Freelance
I’ve turned over Kaitlyn Dever’s performance in “Booksmart” in my head again and again over the past month or so, and every time I consider it, I find myself impressed even more. It isn’t the showiest turn–hell, it isn’t even the most immediately memorable performance in its own movie–but Dever’s subtly funny, eternally awkward Amy is the connective tissue that keeps a film that occasionally feels like a series of stitched-together music videos from spiraling too far off the deep end. From drug trips to heartbreaks to cringe-inducing romantic encounters, Dever switches gears with a subtle finesse that feels both natural and hilariously unexpected.
- 6/24/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Quentin Dupieux’s “Deerskin,” an offbeat French comedy with Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) and Adèle Haenel (“Bpm”), is set to open the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight.
“Deerskin,” which marks Dupieux’s seventh feature, stars Dujardin as a man who becomes obsessed with owning a pricey designer deerskin jacket, leading him to blow his life savings and even turn to crime. Mathieu and Thomas Verhaeghe at Paris-based Atelier de Production produced the movie. WTFilms represents “Deerskin” in international markets.
Dupieux previously attended Directors’ Fortnight in 2013 with the short film “Wrong Cops,” which was the first chapter of the feature film of the same name presented earlier that year at Sundance.
Dupieux, who began his career working with Michel Gondry on music videos and advertising clips, made his feature debut with “Nonfilm” in 2001. His third film, “Rubber,” played at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2010.
He also directed “In Reality,” which played at the Venice Film Festival,...
“Deerskin,” which marks Dupieux’s seventh feature, stars Dujardin as a man who becomes obsessed with owning a pricey designer deerskin jacket, leading him to blow his life savings and even turn to crime. Mathieu and Thomas Verhaeghe at Paris-based Atelier de Production produced the movie. WTFilms represents “Deerskin” in international markets.
Dupieux previously attended Directors’ Fortnight in 2013 with the short film “Wrong Cops,” which was the first chapter of the feature film of the same name presented earlier that year at Sundance.
Dupieux, who began his career working with Michel Gondry on music videos and advertising clips, made his feature debut with “Nonfilm” in 2001. His third film, “Rubber,” played at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2010.
He also directed “In Reality,” which played at the Venice Film Festival,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
TheWrap exclusively presents the trailer for filmmaker Ann Lupo’s festival darling and directorial debut “In Reality,” Watch the trailer above.
The film just won Special Jury Mention for U.S. Fiction at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival (Laff). Part documentary style, part magical realism narrative, “In Reality” is an autobiographical rollercoaster ride through the mind of a young woman falling in and out of love.
Written, produced, directed, edited and starring Lupo, the story centers on Ann, who is consumed by the fantasy of finding true love. Just when she thinks she’s found it, she is friend-zoned. The disappointment of rejection sends her into an obsessive downward spiral that tests the limits of her sanity and the strength of her closest friendship. In order to reclaim her bearings on reality, she confronts her overgrown fantasies by making a film about the experience. The result is a vulnerable, hilarious...
The film just won Special Jury Mention for U.S. Fiction at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival (Laff). Part documentary style, part magical realism narrative, “In Reality” is an autobiographical rollercoaster ride through the mind of a young woman falling in and out of love.
Written, produced, directed, edited and starring Lupo, the story centers on Ann, who is consumed by the fantasy of finding true love. Just when she thinks she’s found it, she is friend-zoned. The disappointment of rejection sends her into an obsessive downward spiral that tests the limits of her sanity and the strength of her closest friendship. In order to reclaim her bearings on reality, she confronts her overgrown fantasies by making a film about the experience. The result is a vulnerable, hilarious...
- 9/28/2018
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
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