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What’s at SXSW? Unicorns, Threesomes, and Another Simple Favor
The 15 movies we’re lining up to see at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.
Ascher’s latest feature, Ghost Boy, sounds very much on brand for the filmmaker in centering on Martin Pistorius, a South African man who, at the age of 12, spent three years in a vegetative state, only to wake up with locked-in syndrome, surrounded by caretakers who had no idea he was aware of what was going on around him, but unable to communicate. The Threesome, which stars Jonah Hauer-King, Zoey Deutch, and Ruby Cruz, may begin with a modish sexual encounter between the three main characters — a smitten audio engineer, his elusive crush, and a grad student the pair meet one evening — but it then morphs into a wonderfully complicated romantic comedy about what happens when the idealistic visions of the future we nurture give way to unexpected realities. The cast — The Afterparty ’s Zoê Chao, Alien: Covenant ’s Callie Hernandez, and Slave Play collaboratorsJeremy O. Harris and James Cusati-Moyer — co-wrote the script with director Pete Ohs, portraying queer friends who are spending some earthy time in upstate New York when one of them develops unsettling symptoms from a tick bite.
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