Alice in a mad land: the directorial debut of the star cameraman of American independent cinema.
The Sweet East
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21 Mar 2024
- Age restrictions
- 18+
2023, Sean Price Williams
United States
104 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Talia Ryder, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi
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Antifa posers led by a posh artist. A literature professor disguising his role in a neo-Nazi organisation. A reclusive Islamists obsessed with the Eurodance of the early 1990s... 17-year-old Lillian, who accidentally strayed from her class on a field trip, meets all of these—and a host of other—freaks as she discovers modern America and its bizarre political world.
Shot from The Sweet East, 2023
The film’s Mad-magazine image of America as a land of craven, bumbling dimwits may not be especially flattering. But it is hard not to be entranced—or at least intermittently amused—by it.
— John Semley, The New Republic
Sean Price Williams, without whose camera the indie cinema of the 2010s is unimaginable, emerges as a ruthless satirist in his directorial debut. Like Dante’s Virgil, he leads his heroine through the circles of an absurdist hell, as he sees America’s East Coast.
