10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, USA | 2016 | color | 163 min | English | d.s.
“Anybody gonna miss you?” “Not really.” “Good, you’re hired.” This is how teenager Star (a striking debut by Sasha Lane) begins a career as a hawker of magazines when she leaves home and joins a motley group of young people (most of whom are played by amateurs) as they smoke weed, sing, make love, steal, quarrel and fight their way across the USA in a van, in the first American film by British director Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights).
This energetically meandering On the Road for millennials has a soundtrack rich in hip-hop and is filmed in a hand-held, documentary style. Here, freedom is not (as it was for Kerouac) the dream, but the enemy. Like all road movies, American Honey is about an inner journey (along the way Star falls for her flirty colleague Jake, played by Shia LaBeouf), meanwhile giving a rare impression of young people trying to find their way in the underbelly of American society.
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 5 April 2017
Time: 20:15
Duration: 2:02
Place: CINEMA 2
Date: 8 April 2017
Time: 15:45
Duration: 2:03
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Andrea Arnold
Camera
Robbie Ryan
Cast
Sasha Lane
Shia LaBeouf
Riley Keough
McCaul Lombardi
Arielle Holmes
Crystal Ice
Veronica Ezell
Country
United Kingdom
USA
Editor
Joe Bini
Language
English
Length
163 min
Music
Clarence B. Hutchinson
Producer
Lars Knudsen
Jay Van Hoy
Pouya Shahbazian
Alice Weinberg
Thomas Benski
Lucas Ochoa
Production Company
Parts & Labor Films
Maven Pictures
Pulse Films
Production Design
Kelly McGehee
Sales
Protagonist Pictures
Scenario
Andrea Arnold
Year of Production
2016
Andrea ARNOLD (1961, UK) studied at the American Film Institute. In 1998, she directed her first short film Milk which has been shown at numerous international film festivals. For her short film Wasp, she received the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2005. After being awarded the Prix du Jury at the 2006 Cannes film festival for Red Road and again in 2009 for Fish Tank, she completed her first literary adaption Wuthering Heights. This title received numerous awards at international film festivals. Arnold’s American Honey (2016) premiered at the Cannes film festival in the Golden Palm competition.
Filmography
Milk (1998, short), Dog (2001, short), Wasp (2003, short), Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), Wuthering Heights (2011), American Honey (2016)