Martin Scorsese, Radu Jude, Joanna Hogg, Claire Denis, Bertrand Bonello, M. Night Shyamalan, Kristen Stewart, Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Margarethe von Trotta are among the international filmmakers and talents who have signed an open letter in support of Carlo Chatrian whose mandate as artistic director of the Berlinale will come to an end next year. The number of signatories has now exceeded 400 names and keeps growing.
As we reported last week, Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, and was surprised to learn that the German body which oversees the festival, Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (Kbb), announced that it would no extend his contract. The org had previously said it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition. The festival’s executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek will also be leaving her post after the next edition.
As we reported last week, Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, and was surprised to learn that the German body which oversees the festival, Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (Kbb), announced that it would no extend his contract. The org had previously said it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition. The festival’s executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek will also be leaving her post after the next edition.
- 9/6/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Adults.If Dustin Guy Defa’s third feature, The Adults, has all the makings of a breakthrough, it does so not solely due to its enthusiastic reception at the Berlinale or its Universal-assisted distribution deal, but because it’s the first of the 45-year-old writer-director’s films to combine his knack for offbeat characterizations with the kind of deeply felt emotion only sporadically seen in his prior work. Unlike many of his more prolific American contemporaries, Defa’s career has progressed in oddly fitful fashion, with lengthy gaps between features broken up by a number of singular short films that, until now, have best displayed his seriocomic approach to matters of urban millennial angst and alienation. The Adults both extends and expands on these themes in ways that open up Defa’s previously cloistered world of neurotic New Yorkers, eccentric artist types, and emotionally unavailable twentysomethings.Starring Michael Cera,...
- 8/15/2023
- MUBI
It’s February in Berlin and Michael Cera is dodging bullets. What’s it like, one reporter asks, to be a new dad? “It’s like a new obsession,” the actor explains, “it’s all you care about.” Filming Juno? “My memories are very nebulous, but it was fun!” Keeping in touch with Elliot Paige? “We don’t speak very often, but it’s always nice when we get together.“ Can he talk about Barbie? “I’ve been told I would be punished.” Working with Greta Gerwig? “A really confident and very fun and collaborative director.” Being mistaken for Jesse Eisenberg? “He told me he gets that, too!” His dream role? “Zuckerberg?” Dustin Guy Defa chimes in, getting a big laugh, “That would be the best.”
The director and star are seated at a roundtable for their new film The Adults. It’s Defa’s first as director in six years,...
The director and star are seated at a roundtable for their new film The Adults. It’s Defa’s first as director in six years,...
- 8/15/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Dustin Guy Defa’s 2023 movie The Adults is a slow-paced slice of life that shows the lives of three siblings. Starring Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, and Sophie Lillis in lead roles, this is a movie where dialogue and living-room heart-to-hearts take the lead. When a brother comes to visit his two sisters in New York, years of repressed sadness and anger are revealed in this hour-and-a-half-long movie. Here’s a detailed recap of everything that happens in The Adults.
Spoilers Ahead
What’s bothering Rachel?
Eric comes over to New York from his place in Portland, Oregon, to visit his sisters after a gap of three years. It’s been a very long time since the mother of Eric and his two sisters, Rachel and Maggie, passed away, and the relationship between the children soured over time. Perhaps this was the reason Eric had stayed away for such a long...
Spoilers Ahead
What’s bothering Rachel?
Eric comes over to New York from his place in Portland, Oregon, to visit his sisters after a gap of three years. It’s been a very long time since the mother of Eric and his two sisters, Rachel and Maggie, passed away, and the relationship between the children soured over time. Perhaps this was the reason Eric had stayed away for such a long...
- 8/10/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Complicated sibling relationships are the basis of Dustin Guy Defa’s The Adults. The film depicts the emotional journey of three siblings — played by Michael Cera, Hannah Gross and Sophia Lillis — reuniting after their mother’s death, a scenario that, while rife with potential conflict, also presents an opportunity for reconnection, understanding and healing. As Defa portrays, such a reunion can cause the distance that has grown between siblings over time to become painfully real.
Eric (Cera) is back in town in order to see his friend’s baby. He’s only there for two days and goes to see his two sisters, Maggie (Lillis) and Rachel (Gross), in the meantime; they’ve been estranged for three years. He has a gambling addiction, Maggie dropped out of college, and Rachel is bitter post-breakup. As children, the trio aspired to be a family music act; now these people couldn’t be...
Eric (Cera) is back in town in order to see his friend’s baby. He’s only there for two days and goes to see his two sisters, Maggie (Lillis) and Rachel (Gross), in the meantime; they’ve been estranged for three years. He has a gambling addiction, Maggie dropped out of college, and Rachel is bitter post-breakup. As children, the trio aspired to be a family music act; now these people couldn’t be...
- 6/14/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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