2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Superior
Starring Alessandra Mesa, Ani Mesa, Pico Alexander, Jake Hoffman, and Stanley Simons.
SYNOPSIS:
On the run, Marian returns to her hometown to hide out with her identical twin sister, Vivian, and in doing so alters the trajectory of both their lives.
In what’s sure to be one of the most audacious feature debuts of this year’s Sundance, Erin Vassilopoulos’
Superior – an expansion of her 2015 short of the same name – is a fascinating, often Lynchian study of dualism that tempers its wilder creative inclinations with two outstanding lead performances.
In a powerfully staged opening scene, Marian (Alessandra Mesa) escapes the clutches of her violently abusive boyfriend Robert (Pico Alexander), commandeering their car and running Robert over in the process. Marian’s first stop is her estranged, identical twin sister Vivian (Ani Mesa), disrupting her dull, pedestrian life in Upstate New York where she lives with her effete
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