Director
Sean Price Williams
Composer
Paul Grimstad
Cast
Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi
Edition 2023
104'
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2023
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Drama
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Dialogue:
English
Sean Price Williams' directorial debut has everything to become a modern cult classic: an enchanting protagonist, a DIY punk attitude, an eclectic soundtrack and bizarre plot twists. Sometimes magical, always provocative. Welcome to the USA.
Angelic but passive Lillian is bored beyond measure on her school trip to Washington D.C. When she strays from her classmates, she tumbles - Alice in Wonderland-style - into a schizophrenic hole called the United States. Director Sean Price Williams (D.O.P. of the Safdie brothers) and screenwriter Nick Pinkerton (mentor of FFG's Young Critics Workshop) cram their restless punk tale chock-full of cinephilic references and sharp satire. Pizzagate, crypto-fascists, clumsy 'artivists' - nothing or no one is spared. American journalists christened the duo 'edgelords', but both men call themselves - first and foremost - patriots. Infused with a great deal of South Park humour, this devilishly intelligent road trip will undoubtedly put a smile on your face.
"Sean Price Williams' punky directorial debut boasts the cinematographer's signature aesthetic and Pinkerton's roguish worldview. (...) A total blast, The Sweet East - seemingly taking cues from John Waters - is cinema at its most playfully facetious, infectiously puerile, and flagrantly transgressive." - The Film Stage
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Credits
Directors
Sean Price Williams
Composers
Paul Grimstad
Cast
Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi
Scenario
Nick Pinkerton
Director of Photography
Sean Price Williams
Editors
Stephen Gurewitz
Production studios
Base 12 Productions
Distributor
Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
2023
Filmography
Sean Price Williams
Sean's Beach (short, 2004), Robert Downey: Moment to Moment (short, 2021), The Sweet East (2023)
