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Additionally, the audiobook was planned to be adapted into a comedy-drama movie, When You Finish Saving the World, with Julianne Moore and Wolfhard set to star as mother and son, directed and written by Eisenberg with Moore, Emma Stone and Dave McCary producing under their Fruit Tree production banner. [6]
Julianne Moore, Finn Wolfhard, Alisha Boe, Jay O. Sanders, Billy Bryk, Eleonore Hendricks. Synopsis. Evelyn (Julianne Moore) has devoted herself to helping people in hard times, but she struggles to connect with her son Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), an aspiring internet star oblivious to the problems of the world. As Evelyn attempts to become a parent ...
When You Finish Saving the World: Directed by Jesse Eisenberg. With Julianne Moore, Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk, Alisha Boe. Evelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other as Evelyn desperately tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, while Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant young woman at school.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jesse Eisenberg
- 2023-07-31
- A movie that’ll make you want to call your mom.
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By Siddhant Adlakha
Updated: Jan 21, 2022 10:20 pm
Posted: Jan 21, 2022 10:09 pm
The below is an advance review out of the Sundance Film Festival, where When You Finish Saving the World made its world premiere.
When You Finish Saving the World feels born from the rib of its writer-director Jesse Eisenberg, an extension of the lingering awkwardness and hidden depths he brings to his on-screen roles. The Social Network and Zombieland star makes his feature debut behind the camera with a sweet, funny, and often moving film that follows a strained relationship between teenage musician Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard) and his social worker mother Evelyn (Julianne Moore), whose diverging paths and outlooks keep them at odds. Adapted from Eisenberg’s audio drama of the same name — in which Wolfhard also appears — it bears several hallmarks of an unpolished visual storyteller, but one who is clearly in the process of fine-tuning his approach, and one who also has no trouble drawing great performances from his outstanding cast.
Ziggy livestreams what he calls “classic folk rock with alternative influences” to his audience of 20,000 — a number he boasts about ad nauseam — but despite using his screen as a window to the globe, he exists in his own world. We’re first introduced to him through his webcam footage, in which he greets his viewers in a multitude of dialects, before the film quickly takes a step back to paint his relationship to his household. His worldwide platform is really a tiny recording studio in his bedroom, with a makeshift wooden window separating him from his parents, Evelyn and Roger (Jay O. Sanders). He exists, simultaneously, as part of a larger community, and completely isolated from his surroundings.
His mother, though she exists offline, faces a similar dichotomy. A well-meaning social worker who runs a shelter for abused women, she weaves in and out of crowded scenes with her employees, and though she has a polite demeanor, she expects each of them to take the job as seriously and somberly as she does, every single minute, even behind the scenes. They occupy the same physical space, but they’re at a complete emotional disconnect — a problem that extends to Evelyn’s relationship with Ziggy. The first time the mother-son duo appears in the same scene, they don’t even share the screen. Evelyn ignores Ziggy’s livestream and tries to unlock his door. Soon after, Ziggy tries to reprimand her, and nearly walks in on her in the shower. They’re separated by wooden frames once again, even as they try, and fail, to have some semblance of a conversation.
They’re also separated by wildly different soundscapes. Composer Emile Mosseri draws from Ziggy’s electronic instruments to create a springy, head-in-the-clouds atmosphere, while Evelyn’s themes take after the heavier classical music she prefers. They eventually appear together on-screen — plenty of times — though their scenes usually end in mutual accusations of limited perspective and escalating arguments about how little they understand each other, before one of them storms off. Ziggy’s one-tracked approach to making money from digital tips and building his online rapport is at odds with the real-world work that Evelyn does (and wants Ziggy to do as well, if only so they can spend time together).
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When You Finish Saving the World sees debuting director Jesse Eisenberg ironing out his visual wrinkles, as he spins an awkwardly funny, emotionally intricate tale about a disconnected mother and son. Led by moving performances from Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, the film takes a roundabout approach to its drama, resulting in a realistic portrai...
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Jan 21, 2022 · He soon added “film director” to his list of titles when he adapted the Audible series into a film of the same name. With “When You Finish Saving the World” making its world premiere at ...
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