Country: USA
Year: 2024
Duration: 98'
Having become a mother, a former artist has moved to the suburbs, where she takes care of her son and waits for her husband to come home from work. Exhausted by the fatigue and loneliness, she begins to seek something different outside her home, gradually feeling something primal and wild emerging within her. What if her true nature is increasingly resembling that of an animal? Amy Adams is stunning in this ironic, devastating reflection on motherhood.
Biography
film director
Marielle Heller
(Marin County, CA, USA, 1979) initially began guest starring on sit-coms and later she transitioned to the big screen in the action comedy MacGruber (2010). Her directing career began in 2012, when she was awarded both the Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Fellowships, the Maryland Film Festival Fellowship, and the Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship. For her debut feature, she adapted and directed Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel, The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The film received critical acclaim at Sundance and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. It also won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus at the Berlin International Film Festival. In television, she has also directed episodes of acclaimed tv series such as Transparent, Casual and The Queen's Gambit. Can You Ever Forgive Me? is her second feature film and was selected at the Festival, then followed by A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), starring Tom Hanks.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Diario di una teenager, 2015), Transparent (serie tv/tv series, 1 ep., 2015), Casual (serie tv/tv series, 2 ep., 2016), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Copia originale, 2018), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Un amico straordinario, 2019), Nightbitch (2024).
Declaration
film director
“We don’t really talk about becoming a parent as the coming of age that it is. It’s a major identity shift. For me, I felt so completely changed on a cellular level. I didn’t recognize myself when I looked in the mirror or my marriage when my partner and I looked at each other. Everything transitioned in this major way that I felt like, ‘Why does nobody talk about this shift in identity that happens when you become a parent?’”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Marielle Heller. STORY: based on the novel by Rachel Yoder. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brandon Trost. EDITING: Anne McCabe. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Karen Murphy. COSTUMES: Arjun Bhasin. MUSIC: Nate Heller. CAST: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden. PRODUCTION: Anne Carey, Marielle Heller, Sue Naegle, Christina Oh, Amy Adams, Stacy O’Neil per Annapurna Pictures, Archer Gray, Bond Group Entertainment, Defiant By Nature, Searchlight Pictures.
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