The Sweet East

The Sweet East

PG

Genre

Drama

Director

Sean Price Williams

Run time

1h 44min

Cast

Talia Ryder, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi

The mental, social and political disarray of the United States, filmed like a game of hopscotch or a variation on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. High school student Lillian runs away while on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists. At every leg of her journey, she comes into contact with hermetic worlds, whose citizens rant and rave to each other, blissfully ignorant of their neighbors. A story at the crossroads of a traditional fairytale, a picaresque narrative and 1970s New Hollywood.

Genre

Drama

Director

Sean Price Williams

Run time

1h 44min

Cast

Talia Ryder, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi

The mental, social and political disarray of the United States, filmed like a game of hopscotch or a variation on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. High school student Lillian runs away while on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists. At every leg of her journey, she comes into contact with hermetic worlds, whose citizens rant and rave to each other, blissfully ignorant of their neighbors. A story at the crossroads of a traditional fairytale, a picaresque narrative and 1970s New Hollywood.

Info

Rating

Not recommended under 12 yrs

Production year

2023

Global distributor

Utopia

Local distributor

A-One Films Estonia

In Cinemas

3/22/2024