If you want to know the tone of 'The Sweet East,' the new film that just premiered at Cannes, here's a taste.
This is all to say cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ solo feature directorial debut is wild. It’s also fascinating, a fairytale-esque journey through America that will inevitably turn some viewers off. Written by the critic Nick Pinkerton, it’s the kind of movie designed to push buttons with a little bit of a “u mad” attitude towards political correctness. It can also be very funny in its outrageousness, even if it ends on a moment that ups the provocation.
We first meet teenager Lillian when she’s on a school trip to D.C. with a bunch of other rowdy high schools. Lillian is uninterested with her cohorts. So when she gets the opportunity to run away from them with a punk , because a man played by comedian Andy Milonakis enters the venue where they are partying waving around a gun and spewing Pizzagate-type conspiracy theories, she does.
And the plot goes on like that. Lillian keeps bouncing from place to place, her good looks and naivete a blank slate for whatever people want to project onto her. Not that, as played by Ryder, she’s lacking a personality. She’s shrewd enough to glom onto whoever will help her out in the moment, and smart enough to get out when she needs to. She’s sort of sponge-like, absorbing pieces of everyone she meets into her personality, parroting their words when she has use for them.
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