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Does Sundance Still Matter?
The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival was a festival wrapped in a hope inside a grand illusion.
“Ricky,” directed with blistering authenticity by Rashad Frett, is the tale of a young man in East Hartford (the mesmerizing Stephan James) who gets out of prison after having spent half his 30 years there. It may be the most wrenching drama about an ex-offender trying to walk the line that I’ve seen since Dustin Hoffman in “Straight Time.” And then there’s “Peter Hujar’s Day,” Ira Sachs’ minimal but magical time-capsule leap back into the scruffy bohemian utopia of art, conversation and the meaning of life without technology. I think you could sense the festival’s ambivalence about this phenomenon in its decision to program “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” Bill Condon’s big-ticket adaptation of the 1992 stage musical, based on Manuel Puig’s novel (but really a variation on the famous 1985 movie).
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