SXSW HIGHS AND MINIMUM: Matthew McConaughey Singing, ‘Holland’ by Nicole Kidman, effervescent, jokes traveling over time and more
The Film and TV Festival SXSW 2025, which concludes on Saturday, presented an RV that travels in time, a disbursement unicorn, transracial surgery and a credible testimony that there are aliens. This is what got on the top and what could not take the flight.
Homicidal Unicorns and a singer Matthew McConaughey stole the show
SXSW has distinguished between the main film festivals with its section of head header, an alignment of stars premieres, backed by the study and thanking the crowd that excite SxSW’s public and helps to release the films to their wide launch, from “Damage Brides”, “21 Jump Street” and “A Quet Place” 4 “and” The idea of you “”. ” “” “” “. “.” ”
This year, only one headline fits completely: the bloody comedy “Death of a Unicorn”, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, made the audience laugh, scream and encourage along with his story of a couple of homicidal fantasy creatures that send a über family and rich in the Canadian agency.
“Drop”, the next thriller directed by Christopher Landon de Blumhouse, also approached a lot, with leader Meghann Fahy absolutely captivating the crowd. Better known for one of the highlights of season 2 of “The White Lotus”, “Drop” consolidated Fahy’s place as a movie star, appearing in each scene of the film as the single mother widow who begins to receive death threats and “drops” horrible to his phone while he is on a first date (with the always more important brandon Sklennar).
“The rivals of the King of Amziah”; “Drop”
Junius Tully; Bernard Walsh/Universal Pictures
Meanwhile, “The Studio”, Seth Rogen’s satirical television series and Evan Goldberg about Hollywood, captivated fans with a two -episodes premiere on the opening night with Greta Lee cameos, Sarah Polley, Paul Dano, Steve Busci, Charlize Theron and Martin Scorsese, all versions of themselves.
But the star that saw the warmest reception at this year’s festival was easily Matthew McConaughey, whose return to film screens after a six -year parenthesis in “The Rivals of Amziah King” obtained the place of Austin, a hero, a welcome before the film, in the narrative section of Spotlight, had begun to play. The idiosyncratic joy of a beekeeper’s film and his adoptive daughter (the newly arrived Angelina Lookingglass) won the audience so completely, thanks in part to several lush musical performances, often directed by McConaughey, who stood up for a sustained feet when the writer and the writer and the Patterson Patterson took the stage.
Most of the poster heads, however, were not up to the name
The opening night film, “another simple favor” by Amazon MGM Studios, has murders and turns of the plot in abundance, but narratively, could not compete with his prequel, “with simple favor” of 2018. That said, the projection received an impulse from The Bright Spotlight in one of his stars, Blake Lively, while sailing for his first great public appearance since his first great public appearance Ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni: the crowd was very happy to see her.
Amazon was also behind two more of the main ones. After “another simple favor” was “The Accountant 2”, the monitoring of Ben Affleck’s 2018 action film about an autistic-Slash-Slassin genius, was average. Except for a line dance sequence that was played well given the Texan configuration of the premiere, the Variety The journalists in the room felt that there was nothing particularly memorable in the film itself or the reaction of the crowd to it, although Variety The critic Owen Gleiberman called him “a good hyperviolent moment of thanks.” “Holland”, directed by Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen and Gael García Bernal, fell narratively and with the audience. There were whispers of frustration throughout the theater with each of the predictable turns of the film, and many attendees chose not to stay to listen to the cast and the team explain them later.
And then I was “Ash”. The science fiction horror film of the Hip-Hop Producer Flying Lotus debuted on Tuesday in the final head of the festival, at which time many festival attendees had already flown home, and the late location was clearly for a reason. Although their images and sound landscapes were interesting enough, the external narrative of the space complex directed by Eiza González and Aaron Paul was as tropoy and repetitive as they come, with a lack of cohesion and reward that questioned if SxSW should have played at all.
The stories of the age of majority remained bread and SxSW butter
The basic element of the proven festival in the history of the age of majority, creative turns in abundance, provided some of the greatest sxsw outbreaks. The shameless satire “Slanted” won the narrative competition with a story about an American Chinese teenager (Shirley Chen) who undergoes surgery to become white (McKenna Grace) and increase his possibilities of winning the queen of graduation dance, think of “the substance” but about racial identity instead of aging. It is a premise with so much potential to go wrong, but in the hands of the writer and director of writer Amy Wang, not only Campy comes out, but truly intelligent. (Variety The main editor of the Clayton Davis awards served in the jury’s narrative jury).
In an equally satirical vein, “she is him” follows from the right -wing fear to tell a winning story about a high school student who only realizes that she is a trans woman after pretending to be trans to sneak into the women’s locker room. The film, with a cast that almost completely consists of LGBTQ actors, was written, filmed and completely edited in 2024, and could not feel more timely.
“It ends” by Alexander Ullom follows four friends from high school that meet after four years for a night meeting place. The horrible endless path in which they are trapped brings great feelings and fights about their relationships, their values and mental health in a gender genre with an impressively clear vision, especially given the cast and crew of filmmakers for the first time in their 20 years.
In the direction of the clock needles from the upper left: “She is he”; “Inclined”; “End”
Bethany Michalski; Nathan Owens; Jones Jones
And what is a summary of the age of majority without some emotionally stunted characters in the late 20 and 30 years they still have to do to do it? Annapurna Sriram won a Special Jury Prize in the narrative competition of functions for directing, producing and starring “Fucktoys”, a story of a sex worker on a mission to reverse a curse. She will do what is necessary, including the sacrifice of a goat. “The trio” makes its titular sexual act look cold, informal, even sweet, until one of the three (Ruby Cruz) makes a chaotic reappearance in the life of the other two (Zoey Deutch and Jonah Hauer-King), which since then have entered a relationship.
West Hollywood is known by the Glitz, Glamor and Gay clubs, but “idiotka” is concentrated in a section of the iconic Los Angeles neighborhood that rarely obtains the same center of attention: the district of Russian immigrants. Anna Baryyshnikov plays Margarita, who is on the verge of the small apartment she shares with her brother, father and grandmother when she is chosen in a reality show that could earn enough money to save them all. But the program, with judges played by Julia Fox, Saweetie and Benito Skinner, presses her to extract her trauma to get more screen time, letting the whole family wonder if the lack of housing is the best option.
The romantic “for worse” comedy tells a completely charming story of most age about a newly divorced mother (Amy Landecker) that begins to go casually with a much younger man (Nico Hiraga, “Booksmart”) in her class of commercial action. Landecker, who also makes his debut as a writer and director, gathered a murderous cast, including Gaby Hoffmann, Ken Marino, Missi Pyle, Kersey Clemons and her husband, Bradley Whitford.
The real world supplies emotions and chills
One of the most anticipated films that entered SXSW had no star, unless it tells Marco Rubio, Kirsten Gillibrand and the other legislators, military personnel and intelligence offers that appear in “the era of dissemination.” The film presents effective attention on all the findings of the United States government on UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena, the formal term for UFOs), as well as everything that the CIA, the Pentagon and other organizations have done to hide that knowledge of the public.
When the exciting Doc Parkour “We Are Storror” appeared for the first time to SXSW, it was without the director’s name; It was only after the programming team immediately said that they did know that the director was Michael Bay. But even if you came to Bay, you stayed for Storror. The doctor captures the United Kingdom Parkour team that not only risks their lives with their acrobatics, but also beautifully captures the images. It is not suitable for those who fear the heights and observed by much of the crowd through the eyes, “Somos Storror” also managed to tell the personal and emotional family history of the team, between acrobatics of increased life and the highest levels of athletics.
“We are Storror”; “Nirvanna The Show The Movie” band “
Brochure / sxsw; Jared Raab
The hiring of intimacy coordinators in cinema and televisions continues to be a topic of debate even after several high -profile actors have presented themselves about the security they provide and the dangerous incidents that could have avoided in the past. But “Make It Look Real” closely follows the work of the Australian intimacy coordinator Claire Warden, demonstrating the night and day difference that their role can do for actors who perform sex scenes.
Including “Nirvanna The Band the Show The Movie” here is a bit cheater; While it involves real people, in the “Bas” style, it is a drill with zero facts or seriousness in sight. But the comedy, starring and directed by the favorite of cult Matt Johnson (“Blackberry”), was the greatest success in the mouth of SxSW. Follow two nobodies who try to reserve their band in the Rivoli, one of the most emblematic live music places in Toronto, and accidentally discover time trips in the process. The Absurdism, 2008 Humor and P. Diddy Disses that occur make up the most fun we saw in Austin. And with approximately one million copyright infractions, “Nirvanna The Band the Show the Movie” may never project again in its current form, the exact type of rarity that has always made this festival great.
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