What is interesting about this story is that it works on an emotional and intellectual level. The crimes are horrible and unimaginable but when you examine the context of the time in history and the societal influences there is a strange logic there. It makes them not just isolated acts of evil, but part of an oppressive community. Then it starts becoming a story about all of us.
The theatrical trailer for The Girl With The Needle has dropped. It is the next major release from MUBI, which…
If Andrea Arnold’s name is on it, we are watching it. The filmmaker behind American Honey and Fish Tank makes movies that feel truly lived-in, tangible authenticity to the max. Hopefully, it’s a hypnotic feeling she’ll capture once again in her upcoming film, Bird, which Mubi is distributing this awards season.
“It came together because I wanted to keep doing movies the way I love to make them in the genre area, which is for me, the best way I can express myself in a creative and and free way. You don’t have the limits of reality. You can create your codes, and your own rules to tell your story, and you can go as far as the Brundlefly, and everything to express to meet the violence of what I wanted to say about the theme.”
“So what are you going to do about your day?”