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SOLLERS POINT

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McCaul Lombardi—like his co-star Sasha Lane—grabbed the attention of casting directors and fashion houses after his riveting turn in the 2016 Andrea Arnold film American Honey.

For SOLLERS POINT—a new independent film written and directed by Matt Porterfield, from a story co-written by Amy Belk and Porterfield—Lombardi returns to his hometown of Baltimore.

“The wonder of SOLLERS POINT—an exceptionally sly and sneaky film in the best sense—is its sense of balance seemingly in midair. Porterfield relies on a constellation of details to build a dramatic framework that’s as strong as it is slender, shaping the plethora of sharply sculpted and ardently observed moments like a powerful magnetic field.

“In the process, this quiet, brisk, and reserved film brings to the fore characters who are sketched by Porterfield in vitally alert and curious impressions that provide a teeming sense of a community taut with the social bonds of family, history, and memory.” — Richard Brody*

 

SOLLERS POINT, through May 31.

LAEMMLE MONICA, 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica.

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newyorker.com/sollers-point-brilliantly-confronts-the-ugliest-aspects-of-modern-american-life

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McCaul Lombardi (left) and a member of the film crew of Sollers Point, in Dundalk, Maryland, just east of Baltimore.

Photograph by David Robert Crews.

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SEAN BAKER’S FLORIDA PROJECT

THE FLORIDA PROJECTSean Baker’s carnivalesque follow-up to Tangerine—plays like a prequel to last year’s American Honey (directed by Andrea Arnold). Orlando wild child Moonee (the extraordinary Brooklynn Prince) could easily grow up to be Krystal (Riley Keough), who oversees Honey‘s ragged troupe of young magazine-subscription hawkers.

Or Moonee could end up like her Mom (Florida Project’s Bria Vinaite), a twenty-something caught in an endless spiral of survival prostitution, bootleg perfume sales, and interchangeable motel rooms, just outside the walls of the Magic Kingdom.

This sun-kissed slice of early-twenty-first-century Americana is one for the ages. Willem Dafoe co-stars as the motel manager trying to hold it all together.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT, now playing.

ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

arclightcinemas.com/movie/the-florida-project

LANDMARK, 10850 West Pico Boulevard, Rancho Park, Los Angeles.

landmarktheatres.com/los-angeles/the-landmark/film-info/the-florida-project

Willem Dafoe and Brooklynn Prince in The Florida Project (2017).

Image credit: A24.

The Florida Project

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