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Thursday
Nov262015

A New Trailer for "Krisha"

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We hope you're having a safe and festive holiday. Hopefully, you're at least having an easier go of it than Krisha.

Set over the Thanksgiving holiday, Krisha follows its titular prodigal mother as she drops into her family after a years long (and substance induced) absence. Things naturally don't go so well. Just in time for the pumpkin pie, a24's next stunner dropped a new trailer!

Awarded both Grand Jury Winner and Audience Award at SXSW this year, this is no straightforward melodrama, but a consuming dive into both Krisha's fractured psyche and the absurd chaos of a bustling family gathering. I was lucky enough to catch it on the festival circuit earlier this month and was over the moon for Trey Edward Shults's debut. The overall package is far less conventional than the trailer here suggests, with nerve-wrattling sound design and editing giving the film a fiercer bite. Though it was recently nominated for the John Cassavettes Award (for features with a budget below $500,000), I was surprised it didn't show up elsewhere - especially considering what an audacious first feature this is.

And just you wait until you get a look at what star Krisha Fairchild can do. Rarely is a female leading role as taxing and broadly demanding as this (let alone for an unknown), yet she remains unflinching, raw, and fully realized.

Krisha will be released in March 2016, and it belongs at the top of your Most Anticipated lists.

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Reader Comments (2)

I second everything you say.

I was even reminded of - dare I say it - Bergman

Fairchild is phenomenal but so is the entire ensemble really. e.g. The actress playing her sister is just as precise and searing and... what's the word for when you're watching a character on screen and it feels like you've already met them in real life, either at a friend's birthday or a partner's work party etc etc. She's that too. Everyone in the cast is.

I hope to see lots more from Trey Edward Schults

November 26, 2015 | Unregistered Commentergoran

This looks fascinating but I have a feeling the "so natural it's unflattering" lighting could get really annoying if it obscures actor's faces and whatnot.

November 30, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDJDeeJay
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