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2 days ago · o the one I’m reviewing here) has many narrative layers, and just as many visual ones. Furthermore, there are layers of character: there is Vita, the fictional alter ego of the filmmaker Zia Anger, played by Olivia Young; there is Dina (Devon Ross), the actress whom Vita hires to play her in the film she tells of making; there is Anne Marie (Deana LeBlanc), who plays the lead actress and ...
1 day ago · The company receiving her pitch denies her pitch and suggests another idea for her first film for which she writes down before telling audiences that there is a first film. Jumping back twelve years, the film shifts from experimenting with multiple ideas to a “conventional” storyline, following the dramatic bits found in writing textbooks.
4 days ago · There’s Never Been a Movie Like ‘My First Film’ — Director Zia Anger’s Metatextual Odyssey Back to Her Debut Feature’s Disastrous Production. With the fall festival season in full ...
4 days ago · My First Film was released in select theaters on August 30, 2024, and was made available for streaming on Mubi on September 6, 2024. The film, directed by debutant Zia Anger and co-written with ...
5 days ago · The first ten minutes of My First Film are hard-hitting. Anger narrates an incident where she was invited to pitch an idea on the topic “female trouble” for a website. Her mother was a mime artist, and she remembered her performing an elaborate piece showcasing the menstrual cycle.
5 days ago · The script for My Eternal Summer, penned by the helmer herself with Mads Lind Knudsen, follows 15-year-old Fanny and her parents as they retreat to their summer house and embrace familiar routines: reading, swimming and walking. Beneath the quiet simplicity, an unspoken grief lingers – they know it will be her mother’s last summer.
1 day ago · Odessa Young knew right away she wanted to be a part of “My First Film,” director Zia Anger’s retelling about her first feature, 2010’s “Always All Ways, Anne Marie,” failing to be ...