‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Director Halina Reijn On Shifting Cultures, Gen Z Lingo & Filming In The Dark [Interview]

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Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” now playing in theaters.A24’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies” starts with seven young partiers drinking, doing drugs and hooking up during a hurricane party, but the debauchery turns deadly as the night goes on, until just two people are left alive.Young lovers Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) may be the only two survivors of this Gen Z massacre, but the trust between them is completely broken. Before falling to her death, Jordan (Myha’la Herrold) reveals to Bee that she and Sophie slept together before the party, which Sophie denies.

Christopher Vourlias Croatian writer-director Juraj Lerotić’s “Safe Place,” an emotional story of a family reeling in the wake of a suicide attempt, took the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, which wrapped a record-setting 2022 edition in the Bosnian capital on Friday night.The Heart of Sarajevo Award for best feature film was given by a jury headed by Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Meise (“The Great Freedom”), which included French filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović (“Earwig”), Croatian writer-director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (“Murina”), Serbian actor Milan Marić (“Dovlatov”) and Israeli producer and consultant Katriel Schory.“Safe Place” plays on Lerotić’s own pained family history, with the Croatian multihyphenate taking on the lead role in his deeply personal story — a performance that also earned him the award for best actor in Sarajevo. Fresh off a triumphant world premiere in Locarno, where the film won three awards including best first feature, “Safe Place” was described by Variety’s Guy Lodge as a “supremely poised and moving first feature” and a “shattering” debut, “with a long trail of further festival bookings surely ahead.”Ukrainian director Maryina Er Gorbach was named best director for “Klondike,” which portrays the brutal realities of the war unfolding in Ukraine’s Donbass region through the lens of a pregnant farmstead owner whose life and home fall apart.

. Amandla Stenberg has taken to Instagram to defend herself after sending an indignant message to New York Times film critic Lena Wilson after she Stenberg's film Bodies Bodies Bodies. After referring to the A24 film as “a 95-minute advertisement for cleavage” in her review, Wilson shared on Twitter that Sternberg direct messaged her on Instagram.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“Your review was great,” the message read.

Bodies Bodies Bodies review.Stenberg stars in A24’s newest horror comedy film about a group of rich friends in their twenties who host a party game that ends in a death.Wilson, a New York Times critic, wrote in her review that while the film is not “bad”, it’s “not special”.“The only thing that really sets Bodies Bodies Bodies apart is its place in the A24 hype machine, where it doubles as a 95-minute advertisement for cleavage and Charli XCX’s latest single,” Wilson wrote.Yesterday (August 18) the film critic shared a screenshot of an Instagram message that she received from Stenberg a few days following the review’s publication, which read: “Your review is great, maybe if you had gotten your eyes off my tits you could’ve watched the movie!”Below the photo, Wilson tweeted: “Always weird when the homophobia is coming from inside the house but this is something.”“Me: (spends one line of a 500-word review facetiously commenting on how A24 objectifies young women to sell content),” she added.

“Bodies Bodies Bodies.”In her review of the A24 horror-comedy, Lena Wilson wrote that it “doubles as a 95-minute advertisement for cleavage and Charli XCX’s latest single.” Stenberg then responded to Wilson via Instagram DM: “Your review was great. Maybe if you had gotten your eyes off my tits you would’ve watched the movie!” Wilson did not take kindly to Stenberg’s message, replying “Hey, Amandla! Generally a big fan of your work, but this sure is something.

Zack Sharf Amandla Stenberg posted a video to her Instagram stories explaining why she reached out to The New York Times film critic Lena Wilson with a controversial message. As revealed by Wilson in a viral tweet, Stenberg contacted the film critic on Instagram after Wilson wrote in her “Bodies Bodies Bodies” review that the A24 horror movie “doubles as a 95-minute advertisement for cleavage.”“Your review was great,” Stenberg wrote to Wilson. “Maybe if you had gotten your eyes off my tits you would’ve watched the movie!”Stenberg’s comment generated backlash after it was posted to Twitter by Wilson, but the “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor said in her own Instagram video that she was just trying to be funny with her message.

wrote in her review.Wilson said that while the film — which boasts 89% on Rotten Tomatoes — is not “bad,” it’s certainly “not special.”She then shared a screenshot of her DMs, with the alleged message from Stenberg.“Maybe if you had gotten ur eyes off my t-ts you could’ve watched the movie,” the DM allegedly from Stenberg reads.always weird when the homophobia is coming from inside the house but this is something“Do you think she Instagram DM’d Alison Willmore, Justin Chang, and Anthony Lane like this or..,” Wilson tweeted alongside the screenshot, referring to the other critics who also reviewed the film.In a follow-up tweet, Wilson claimed Stenberg’s DM was somewhat homophobic.“Always weird when the homophobia is coming from inside the house but this is something,” she wrote.“Me: (spends one line of a 500-word review facetiously commenting on how A24 objectifies young women to sell content),” Wilson went on.

Amandla Stenberg is calling out a critic.

Christopher Vourlias Croatia’s Drugi Plan and Bulgaria’s Agitprop, two of the leading production outfits in Southeast Europe, have been attached to co-produce the upcoming drama series “Sabre,” a political thriller revolving around the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic produced by Belgrade-based This and That Productions.Created by Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić, the series will star Serbian-Danish actress Danica Curcic, known to international audiences for her lead role in the Netflix psychological thriller “The Chestnut Man,” as a reporter investigating the shocking murder.The companies announced the deal on Monday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where This and That’s “Bad Blood” and Drugi Plan’s “The Silence” were among the top Balkan drama series vying for Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in the Bosnian capital on Sunday night. “Sabre” was first pitched in Sarajevo three years ago during the CineLink Drama co-financing forum, where it was named best drama project.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAfter a pretty successful summer season, it’s officially the dog days at the domestic box office.Without a major studio movie on the horizon, theater operators are banking on a smattering of smaller, lower-budgeted horror stories, comedies and dramas to take advantage of the lull in blockbusters. Basically, the next few weeks will cater to the rare ticket buyers who have been dying to return to the movies, but aren’t fans of comic book adventures or action tentpoles.This weekend will be particularly quiet with Lionsgate’s action-thriller “Fall” and A24’s satirical slasher “Bodies Bodies Bodies” as the only new nationwide releases.

A misunderstanding. Nicola Peltz just cleared the air about Victoria Beckham’s wedding dress drama. The Transformers actress spoke to Variety for her husband Brooklyn Beckham’s feature story on August 10, 2022, about why she thinks the drama ensued.

“I wanted to approach it as a commentary on the time we live in, and Gen Z, but also myself because I’m totally addicted to my phone,” says Bodies Bodies Bodies director Halina Reijn on what drew her to the Kristen Roupenian story and Sarah DeLappe scripted feature.

Annie Lyons Social media drives the performative interactions of entitled 20-somethings in Halina Reijn’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” but beneath their constructed personas, anxiety, fear and jealousy fester. These intense feelings were at the forefront of cinematographer Jasper Wolf’s mind, who wanted his extensive lighting choices to underscore each “new emotional boxing round.”The A24 film stars Maria Bakalova as Bee, a young working-class woman who accompanies her new girlfriend Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) to a hurricane party thrown by Sophie’s uber-rich friends.

A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies hit theaters with the highest per-screen average this weekend in a limited opening, and the second best of the year. That record was set last spring with Everything Everywhere All at Once as this indie distributor piles up successes.

wear a T-shirt with her name on it just to make them aware,” she recalled.Huppert has nearly 150 credits to her name. Some of her most celebrated work includes “The Piano Teacher,” “The Lacemaker,” “Violette Nozière,” “La Séparation,” “8 Women” and “Elle,” for which she received an Academy Award nomination.“I think it’s really interesting sometimes to be like Isabelle Huppert, who just says, ‘I go to zero,'” Reijn continued. “Instead of thinking, ‘Who am I? Where am I going?’ just react.

the most Gen Z movie ever” and opened with a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But where is “Bodies Bodies Bodies” playing? Is it streaming? All your questions are answered below.The movie opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 5 and hits theaters nationwide on August 12.The movie is currently playing in select theaters.

Rosanna Arquette has joined the third season of ABC’s Big Sky in a key recurring role opposite Katheryn Winnick.

Jovan Marjanović has been with the Sarajevo Film Festival for more than two decades and while he is what he describes as “a true child of the festival” this year marks the first edition where he’ll sit as director of the much-loved Balkan event, taking the reins from founder and long-time director Mirsad Purivatra.