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Tribeca Festival · 2020

Tribeca Festival 2020

Critics' Week

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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American Psycho

Review preview for American Psycho

What matters here is what is real and what is the figment of a sick imagination.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
Tales of a yuppie serial killer.

(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Mary Harron; Writer: Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner. Based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis; Stars: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon)

Full review

I Carry You With Me

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2020; Director: Heidi Ewing; Writer: Heidi Ewing, Alan Page; Stars: Armando Espitia, Christian Vazquez, Michelle Rodríguez, Ángeles Cruz, Raúl Briones, Arcelia Ramírez, Pascacio López, Michelle González, Luis Alberti, Yael Tadeo, Nery Arredondo, Alexia Morales, Alberto Trujillo, Armando Espitia, Christian Vazquez)

New York premiere

Lux Æterna

Two actresses on a film set tell stories about witches.

(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Gaspar Noé; Writer: Gaspar Noé; Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg)

North American premiere

The Nowhere Inn

When St Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Bill Benz; Writer: Carrie Brownstein, St Vincent; Stars: St Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Ezra Buzzington, Toko Yasuda, Chris Aquilino, Drew Connick, Tema Louise Sall, Erica Acevedo, Sean Liang, Sarah Tither-Kaplan, LaNora Terraé Hayden, Kash Abdulmalik, Michael Bofshever, Rya Kihlstedt, Guy Nardulli)

New York premiere

Shirley

Review preview for Shirley

Before, it often felt as though Decker was drifting off onto self-indulgent tangents but her latest feels much more under control, with those tangents are a fully fledged part of the portrait.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A young couple moves in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson, and her Bennington College professor husband, Stanley Hyman, in the hope of starting a new life but instead find themselves fodder for a psycho-drama that inspires Shirley's next novel.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Josephine Decker; Writer: Sarah Gubbins, Susan Scarf Merrell; Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Margarita Allen, Steve Vinovich, Ryan Spahn, Lexa Hayes, Adelind Horan, Molly Fahey, Allen McCullough, Thomas Racek, Edward O'Blenis, Emily Decker, Tony Manna)

Full review

New York premiere

Sweet Thing

Nico and Billie are not protected by their dysfunctional and irresponsible parents, so the siblings embark on a journey with young Malik – full of cinematic references and intense moments of freedom.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Alexandre Rockwell; Stars: Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell, Jabari Watkins, Will Patton, Karyn Parsons)

North American premiere