“They're less about me than about the character,” Swann Arlaud told IndieWire, smiling about the fancams and edits that turned the Parisian character actor into an unlikely sex symbol for the Letterboxd set. “I think people responded to a different kind of masculinity, someone in service to a woman, a kind of devoted lover. So I don't really feel responsible for what it triggered.”
The movie follows "Maitreya (Anderson), a rising star in the New Age Healing community who is about to head off to a conference in India when she receives a call from her estranged sister, Monica: their father is dying. Rather than stay home with him, Maitreya decides to bring her entire family-including her mother, Barbara (Harry)-to the conference and put her New Age healing theories to the test (all while surreptitiously gathering material for her next book)."
Grete (Luna Wedler), an aspiring botanist who, in 1908, becomes the first woman admitted to Marburg University, in Germany—an honor granted, begrudgingly, by an all-male panel of professors. Then again, the protagonist might be Hannes (Enzo Brumm), a former farm boy studying at the same school in 1972. His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn't share his classmates' interest in campus sit-ins and free love.
Silent Friend is built around silences and the steady accumulation of human and natural detail, feeling as if it's being told by the tree itself: omniscient, unflinching, yet shot through with an almost alien tenderness.
The film presents a modern-day Travis Bickle nightmare, showcasing a Toronto driver deeply depressed about providing for a partner and baby while being exploited by rude customers.
The worlds that they inhabit seem poles apart. Compared with the storm-ravaged Suffolk coast that curves around John's rugged village, the imposing halls of Otto's college at Oxford are at once grand and isolating.
The cameo list for The Devil Wears Prada 2 is extensive, featuring stars like Lady Gaga and Naomi Campbell, but Anna Wintour's absence is notable despite her filming a scene.
Adam Scott grew up watching horror movies at, as he describes it, 'probably too young' an age. But he never set out to work specifically in the genre. Even still, horror seemed to follow him around from the very beginning.