The Sweet East
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Why watch?
“With periods of humour and ethereal beauty interspersed with cutting language and social taboos, The Sweet East is an exciting and assured debut from a new filmmaker with a distinct voice and a mobile phone full of all the hottest names in young Hollywood. If you liked recent films like Bottoms, Saltburn, Rotting in the Sun, this is one for you to check out.”
Wendy Cooke,
Head of Cinema
The Sweet East marks the directorial debut of cinematographer Sean Price Williams, who has previously worked with some of the key names of the contemporay indie film scene including Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Queen of Earth) and the Safdie Brothers (Good Time).
The result is a visually stunning road movie following bored Lillian (a mesmerising Talia Ryder who previously starred in Never Rarely Sometimes Always) as she chaotically trips her way from one extreme situation to the next. slipping casually from Neo-nazi's to film students without missing a breath, The Sweet East has hints of Alice in Wonderland mixed with Vera Chytilová's Daisies.
Details
“This succulent, double helping of cine-scrapple lovingly combines the mechanically-reclaimed morsels of a culture in ideological free-fall into a film which offers a panoply of flavours and textures that will be unique to many diners.”
Little White Lies
“The film is intriguingly anthropological in its take on America as a subject, viewed less through the prism of what American might signify as a nation, than how America might feel as an experience — there’s a sense of disintegration and incipient violence seeping through everything, which occasionally explodes to entertaining effect, but there’s clearly deep affection there too.”
Variety