20 Films We’re Psyched to See at Sundance Inline
Photo: Courtesy of the Sundance Institute1/20Results
Mumblecore graduates from post-college aimlessness to the responsibilities and regrets of Thirtydom. After dabbling in retro mock-doc with 2013’s Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski returns to the present with Results, centered on a local gym, where a fitness guru, a lonely divorcé, and an sharp-tongued trainer hope to improve—though inevitably complicate—their lives.
Photo: Courtesy of the Sundance Institute2/20Digging for Fire
The prolific Joe Swanberg (he averages three films a year) follows up on the themes of temptation and domestic ennui he tackled in the underrated Drinking Buddies and last year’s Happy Christmas with Digging for Fire, an ensemble piece led by Rosemarie DeWitt and Jake Johnson as young, distracted parents in L.A.
Photo: Courtesy of the Sundance Institute3/20Mistress America
Meanwhile in New York, Greta Gerwig has evolved from her rudderless dancer in Frances Ha to a confident cosmopolitan dispensing life lessons to her impressionable stepsister (Lola Kirke) in **Noah Baumbach’**s Mistress America.
Photo: Courtesy of the Sundance Institute4/20Nasty Baby
Across the river in Brooklyn, Chilean writer-director Sebastián Silva (The Maid, Crystal Fairy) moves in front of the camera, joining TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe in Nasty Baby as a gay couple seeking a surrogate. Though the plot suggests more dramatic territory for Silva, with his mischievous black comedy and Kristen Wiig playing the best friend, there’s sure to be plenty of (uncomfortable) laughs, too.
Photo: Courtesy of the Sundance Institute5/20Unexpected
Kris Swanberg (who collaborated with husband Joe on films like Hannah Takes the Stairs and Alexander the Last) also has babies on the brain: Her third feature, Unexpected, stars _How I Met Your Mother’_s Cobie Smulders as a public school teacher facing both a student’s and her own unplanned pregnancies.
