Trailers, you say? Fine, I’ll give you trailers! Go ahead and eat up all the celluloid snacks you can handle.
Admit it: You’ve always wanted to see movies that look just like this.
Let’s say you’re a guy who likes women, but also likes guys. Maybe you’ve never really acknowledged that particular part of yourself… until a certain man starts blowing up your phone. How do you make sense of what you feel? Or summon the courage to claim who you are? And above all else, how do you scrape together enough money to go out on a damn date? These dilemmas, and so much more, in “Bright Orange.”
Sometimes you break up with your boyfriend. Sometimes you turn 30. Sometimes you do both at the same time. And when your big day goes bust, sometimes the best thing you can do is anything at all.
Let’s say you’re a woman, and let’s say that the story of the Immaculate Conception makes you want to punch the back of your pew every December. Let’s pretend that an entire religion is based on a pregnancy that doesn’t seem super consensual. Let’s think of the Virgin Mary, not as a symbol of purity and obedience, but as a real woman with flesh and blood and complicated feelings about pregnancy and motherhood. Let’s assume that the voice we hear Mary use in the Bible was probably created for her by a church full of men, because let’s be honest, the silencing of women’s voices has always been a reality. I wonder what it might be like to hear Mary use her own words, instead of the words that men have assigned to her for centuries. It could be interesting, right?
“The Annunciation” was made for the 100 Feet of Film Challenge, presented by Kodak and the Atlanta Film Society. Someday, once the pandemic calms down, there’s gonna be a screening. Keep your eyes peeled, Atlanta, because this juicy morsel of heretical cinema is coming for you real soon.