How would a movie narrated by a catfish feel? While the animal probably has a good view of what’s going on, would it understand? And when people use it as a stand-in for their conscience—knowing (yet not wanting to accept) the voice responding was still his/her own—would it retain the context of what it had heard? This fish would be an objective third party observer trying to parse the world around it through those few kind souls that pay it the time of day. For Maggie this entails a jumbled experience of those patients who are her roommates, the doctors and nurses roaming the halls of Love of Maria hospital, and any significant others who may visit and or be brought up during those aforementioned “heart-to-hearts.”
First-time feature writer/director Ok-seop Yi gives Maggie an eccentric menagerie with which to learn about humanity and create her...
First-time feature writer/director Ok-seop Yi gives Maggie an eccentric menagerie with which to learn about humanity and create her...
- 7/18/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Cast of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” on the Red Carpet
In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes
In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.
He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...
In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes
In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.
He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...
- 6/4/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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