The Honeyjoon Phase
Movie Pick of the Week
Dear Friends,
The Tribeca Film Festival opened last night and celebrates its 25th anniversary. I really enjoyed attending the movies and panels last year. The pick for this week is a movie that premiered at Tribeca last year, but I missed it at the time. It’s one of a select group of previous festival participants that have made their way into theaters over the course of the year, with varying degrees of success.
The film is Honeyjoon, the first feature by writer-director Lilian T. Mehrel, and it tells the story of a “grief anniversary” getaway shared by a mom and her adult daughter a year after the death of their husband/father. Since its premiere, Honeyjoon has had a very extensive festival run and collected numerous awards. Here’s the trailer1:
We’ll go next Wednesday (June 10) to the 7pm screening at IFC Center with Ms. Mehrel in attendance – ah the benefits of being in New York where the filmmakers travel to you all year round!
It’s actually a banner weekend for women-directed films compared to the past couple of months, with at least five other varied and distinctive features screening in NYC2. Notably, however, all of them are non-Hollywood limited releases. While the summer is shaping up to be good for the box office, Hollywood studios continue to support almost exclusively men. Women can direct franchise and horror movies too, people!
To the pleasure of films and the discussions they spark,
Josh
As you know, I rarely watch trailers, but I figure it’s helpful for everyone if I begin to include links!
Of these, the two that caught my eye are Time and Water by acclaimed documentarian Sara Dosa, who made Oscar-nominee Fire of Love about two married volcanologists; and Forastera by Spanish director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, a “tender ghost story” about a young woman and her family’s response to the death of her grandmother.