First Poster for Sean Price Williams’ ‘THE SWEET EAST’ – A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in the country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over
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>The mental, social and political disarray of the United States, filmed like a game of hopscotch or a variation on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. High school student Lillian runs away while on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists. At every leg of her journey, she comes into contact with hermetic worlds, whose citizens rant and rave to each other, blissfully ignorant of their neighbors. A story at the crossroads of a traditional fairytale, a picaresque narrative and 1970s New Hollywood.
I love this guy’s cinematography for the Safdie brothers. So dirty.