ItalianoEddington
16 October 21:00
Sala Petrassi
Pub Acc
Festa del cinema
Synopsis
In May of 2020, in the midst of the first lockdown, a standoff between a smalltown sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. Tensions build, suspicions grow, and a climate of fear risks spiraling out of control.
COMMENTARY
The collective and individual disconnect proliferates and unleashes old grudges and new paranoias in an America more and more unbalanced, off the wall, and out of control. A negationist sheriff faces off against a law-abiding mayor. A town of 2,000 people slowly implodes, in a film that mixes the horrors of everyday life and social rage with the sass of one of the dark comedies.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I wanted to make a film that felt like the country we live in without necessarily villainizing anyone or propping anyone up. I hope it’s democratic in the way that it gives equal weight to every instrument in the cacophony. And in the end, whatever our differences of opinion, we have to find a way to re-engage with each other. The powers of tech and finance have kept us frozen and in our individual silos, but we’re all in the same situation. We all know that something’s very seriously wrong.
Director
Ari Aster
Writer-director-producer Ari Aster’s debut feature Hereditary
became a critical and box office success hit in 2018. Aster continued his
genre-challenging work with his 2019 thriller Midsommar and again in 2023 with Beau is Afraid.
In 2019, Aster and Lars Knudsen co-founded their production company Square Peg, which would join in on making films such as The Northman by Robert Eggers, Dream Scenario by Kristoffer Borgli, and Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos.