One of IndieWire’s best queer movies from the 2000s Where Lucio Castro‘s “End of the Century” from 2019, a somewhat surreal will-they, they did, not-they-they-they Gay romance in Barcelona. His follow -up film “After his death”, about a woman (Mia Maestro) in free case after a business with an enigmatic musician (Lee Pace) who seems to have a literally a cult that follows, premiered at Berlinale and took the Argentine writer/director Castro short out of the queer film space.
But he’s back with another gay kvasi-romance, this time in New York City, with “Drunk noodles“Who feels like Apichat Pong WeeraSethakul, which directs an early 80’s new Queer-Biodi. Cannes Film Festival Acid parallel sections later this month. (Standing for the association du cinma Indépendant pour said diffusion, acid is dedicated to raising indie -fillers.) Here they take the insanity elements of the “end of the century” fuller force (and in a movie that is not to mention really sexy).
“Drunken Noodles” takes place during two summers, on both the city streets and the forest roads in Upstate New York, as art student Adnan (Laith Khalife) has a series of unexpected intimate meetings. Look at IndieWire exclusive trailer before the film’s Cannes premiere below.
Here is the official synopsis: “Adnan, a young art student, arrives at New York City for the flat-sitting for the summer. He begins to interfere in a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once met. When moments from his past and present start to interact, a series of meetings-Both artistic and erotic.
“In the summer of 2021, a friend introduced me to Salandra, an artist in the late 70’s who had recently begun to create explicit sexual tables in needle – a craft that is usually reserved for milder themes, such as kittens playing with balls of yarn,” said Castro on the film’s origin in a press release. “I was immediately imprisoned and went to interview the hall on his Long Island home and thought I might make a documentary. But I left to feel that what went to his work remained out of reach. I realized that what I wanted to explore could not be formulated in a documentary, it must be done through fiction.”
Joel Isaac, Ezriel Kornel and Matthew Risch co -star in the film, which contains film by Barton Cortright, who last shot “The feeling that the time to do something has gone“Of the 2023 Cannes Director’s two weeks.
Look at the trailer for “drunk noodles” below.
The film is produced by Castro and Cortright during their Alsina 427 banner, with co-producers Joanne Lee and Julia Bloch and the executive producer Pierce the notion of Nice dissolve. M-Appeal handles world sales. US distribution is currently in negotiation and is expected to be announced shortly.
