The Sweet East

Directed by Sean Price Williams | 105 minutes | 15+ | NSW Premiere

7.30pm, Sunday, 4th February | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

A high-schooler's surreal journey into the heart of contemporary America, via its strange sects and cults. Cannes 2023.

Lillian (Talia Ryder), a New Jersey high-schooler, bails from a class trip to Washington D.C. and falls in with the first of several groups that try to win her to their causes. Her trip down the rabbithole passes through an independent film shoot with Jacob Elordi, the home of an Edgar Allen Poe scholar (Simon Rex) with retrograde politics, and a whirlwind trip to New York City (where she encounters a duo of filmmakers, played by Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy O. Harris). The debut feature from acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time, Her Smell, Funny Pages), penned by critic Nick Pinkerton, is hilarious and reflective in equal measure, a film that mocks our contemporary moment by always giving its characters enough rope.

"A riotous Alice In Wondermerica." - Rafa Sales Ross, The Playlist

"A thoroughly pungent, scabrously funny kind of nightmare picaresque." - Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com

Country: USA
Year: 2023
Language: English