Directed by:
Dan SallittScreenplay:
Dan SallittCinematography:
Duraid MunajimCast:
Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Kate Lyn Sheil, Eleanore Pienta, Liz Toonkel, Mike Faist, Sunita Mani, Caitlin Mehner, Ashley ReyesPlots(1)
Seventeen-year-old Jackie Kimball lives in an idyllic old house in Brooklyn with her widowed mother, her younger sister Yolanda and her brother Matthew, one year her senior. The family sees good relations between siblings as entirely natural, except that Jackie is too fixated on her brother. She gets distressed when Matthew brings back his first serious date to meet the family. When her brother leaves home for university, Jackie’s neurosis just gets worse. She receives a little help from a friendly therapist, but she essentially has to deal with her situation in her own quiet way… In his subtle psychological film, screenwriter, director and film editor Dan Sallitt employs unusual tact to treat the theme of incest. His sophisticated method of directing probes deep inside his characters, despite the apparent emotional inertia of the images; the latter, however, conjure up a spiritual charge similar to what we might experience in the works of the masters of direction: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Tallie Medel
USA
Best movies:
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Sky Hirschkron
USA
Best movies:
The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Kate Lyn Sheil
USA
Best movies:
The Color Wheel (2011)
Brigsby Bear (2017)
You're Next (2011)
Eleanore Pienta
Best movies:
A Different Man (2024)
Soft & Quiet (2022)
Chained for Life (2018)
Liz Toonkel
Best movies:
The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Mike Faist
USA
Best movies:
West Side Story (2021)
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2022)
Challengers (2024)
Sunita Mani
USA
Best movies:
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
Spirited (2022)
Caitlin Mehner
USA
Best movies:
L'Écrivain rebelle (2017)
The Best of Enemies (2019)
Ocean's 8 (2018)
Ashley Reyes
USA
Best movies:
Where God Left His Shoes (2007)
First Girl I Loved (2016)
The Unspeakable Act (2012)