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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
One of Cannes' Sexiest, Queerest Films Is Lucio Castro's Mystical Art World Odyssey ‘Drunken Noodles' — Watch Trailer
One of IndieWire's Best Queer Films of the 21st Century was Lucio Castro's 'End of the Century' from 2019, a slightly surreal will-they, did-they, won't-they gay romance set in Barcelona. His follow-up film 'After His Death,' about a woman (Mia Maestro) in freefall after an affair with an enigmatic musician (Lee Pace) who appears to quite literally have a cult following, premiered at the Berlinale and took Argentine writer/director Castro briefly out of the queer cinematic space. But he's back with another gay quasi-romance, this time in New York City, with 'Drunken Noodles,' which feels like Apichatpong Weerasethakul directing an early '80s New Queer Cinema indie. It has a lo-fi, shot-on-film aesthetic mixed with mystical elements, and it's premiering in the Cannes Film Festival ACID parallel section later this month. (Standing for Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion, ACID is dedicated to elevating indie filmmakers.) Here, the mind-bending elements of 'End of the Century' take on fuller force (and in a film that is not to mention quite sexy). More from IndieWire ADVERTISEMENT 'Drunken Noodles' takes place over two summers, in both the city streets and the forest paths of upstate New York, as art student Adnan (Laith Khalifeh) has a series of unexpected, intimate, and even otherworldly, time-and-space-warping encounters. Watch the IndieWire exclusive trailer before the film's Cannes premiere below. Here's the official synopsis: 'Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. He begins interning at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once encountered is being exhibited. As moments from his past and present begin to intertwine, a series of encounters – both artistic and erotic – open cracks in his everyday reality.' 'In the summer of 2021, a friend introduced me to the work of Sal Salandra, an artist in his late 70s who had recently begun creating explicit sexual tableaux in needlepoint — a craft typically reserved for gentler themes, like kittens playing with balls of yarn,' Castro said as to the film's origins in a press statement. 'I was instantly captivated and went to interview Sal at his Long Island home, thinking I might make a documentary. However, I left feeling that what drew me to his work remained out of reach. I realized that what I wanted to explore couldn't be articulated in a documentary, it had to be done through fiction.' Joel Isaac, Ezriel Kornel, and Matthew Risch co-star in the film, which features cinematography by Barton Cortright, who most recently shot 'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,' out of the 2023 Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Watch the trailer for 'Drunken Noodles' below. The film premieres at the festival in the ACID section Sunday, May 18. ADVERTISEMENT The film is produced by Castro and Cortright under their Alsina 427 banner, with co-producers Joanne Lee and Julia Bloch, and executive producer Pierce Varous of Nice Dissolve. M-appeal is handling world sales. U.S. distribution is currently in negotiation and is expected to be announced shortly. Best of IndieWire Sign up for Indiewire's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
The Independent
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Palestinian star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike
Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photojournalist who is the protagonist of Sepideh Farsi's documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, has been killed by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza. She was 25. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is set to screen as part of ACID (Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion), a parallel section promoting independent film at next month's Cannes Film Festival. In a statement to The Independent, the organizers of ACID said: 'We, filmmakers and members of the ACID team, met Fatma Hassona when we discovered Sepideh Farsi's film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk during the Cannes programme. 'Her smile was as magical as her tenacity: bearing witness, photographing Gaza, distributing food despite the bombs, mourning and hunger. We heard her story, we rejoiced at each of her appearances to see her alive, we feared for her. Yesterday, we were shocked to learn that an Israeli missile had targeted her building, killing Fatem and her family. 'We had watched and programmed a film in which this young woman's life force seemed like a miracle. This is no longer the same film that we are going to support and present in all theaters, starting with Cannes. All of us, filmmakers and spectators alike, must be worthy of her light.' In an additional statement, Farsi described how making contact with Hassona had been invaluable for the Iranian filmmaker's documentary about Gaza. 'I got to know her through a Palestinian friend in Cairo, while I was desperately searching for a way to reach Gaza, while hitting blocked roads, seeking the answer to a question both simple and complex,' said Farsi. 'How does one survive in Gaza, undersiege for all those years? What is the daily life of Palestinian people under war? What is it that Israel wishes to erase in this handful of square kilometers, with so many bombs and missiles? 'I, who had just finished a movie, The Siren, about another war, the one between Iraq and Iran. I, who could still feel the distant echo of the explosion's shockwaves ringing in my ears, and dust in the back of my throat, from my Iranian teenage-hood. I wanted to know how the Gazans resisted to all of this, what they were going through... I could not find the answer in news and media. I wanted to hear their words unmediated. I wanted to be in Gaza. Something my 'born in Iran' stamped French passport made inconceivable for Egyptian administration and Israeli occupation. 'From our first conversation, I grabbed my camera and started filming: our exchanges, Fatem and I, what was going on around her, asking her to bring me to a window, whether of her house or her shelter, depending on where she was, for me to see through the window. And so, Fatem became my eyes in Gaza, and I, a window open on the world, for her. I filmed, catching the moments offered by our video calls, what Fatem was sharing with me, fiery and full of life. I filmed her laughs, her tears, her hopes and her despair. I followed my instinct. Without knowing beforehand where those images would lead us. Such is the beauty of cinema. The beauty of life.' The war, now in its 18th month, started when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, and taking 251 others hostage. The group still holds 59 captives — 24 of whom are believed to be alive.
