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Erin Vassilopoulos makes her directorial debut with a dramatic thriller about estranged twin sisters reuniting when one is in danger. Much of Erin Vassilopoulos’ moody, something’s-wrong-in-the-suburbs directorial debut, Superior, takes place in a Reagan-era Barbie Dreamhouse come to life. Within its mint and pink-punch walls live Vivian (Ani Mesa) and Michael (Jake Hoffman), a young couple who are dismayed when her estranged twin sister, Marian (Alessandra Mesa, Ani’s own twin), a touring rock musician, drops by unannounced during a thawing winter and asks to stay for a few days. On the run from a young man (Pico Alexander) who looks like he’s doing rockabilly-hitman cosplay with his slicked-back hair, too-shiny leather trench and ominous leather gloves, Marian dreams that he breaks into her sister’s home at night, calming the couple’s three huskies so he can finish what he started. ....
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 l ....
Elmira Star-Gazette Elmira is about to get some major exposure this weekend, even if it s meant to look like a different Southern Tier community the City of Hornell. A film crew led by director and cowriter Erin Vassilopoulos was in Elmira and other locations in the Southern Tier in December 2019 to film scenes for the movie Superior, and the film will make its debut this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Superior is actually a sequel to a short movie of the same name Vassilopoulos filmed in 2015, based in Hornell. What is Superior about? In the original movie, a stranger passing through town sparks a teenage girl s desire to distinguish herself from her identical twin sister, according to the film s description. As one sister struggles to break free, the other insists on preserving their distinctive bond. ....
Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3. The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection Life In A Day 2020. A features roster representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers includes three films from Cannes Label 2020: Pascual Sisto’s ....
Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person experiences, the festival has plans that extend far beyond the theater: a digital platform where patrons around the world can watch this year’s lineup; drive-in screenings at venues around the country; in-person showings at independent art houses nationwide where indoor events can happen safely and in accordance with public health guidelines; and even a virtual reality space that includes live performances and a lobby where people can digitally congregate. ....