Pictured: Run Rabbit Run, Fair Play, The Deepest Breath
It’s 2023, and we’re already kicking off issues with a wave of recent movies being screened on the Sundance Film Festival 2023 this month in Park City, Utah. As they’ve with earlier years, Netflix has been throwing their cash round on the pageant, and we’ve put collectively a rundown of what these films are to this point.
The pageant turns into a stomping floor for streaming companies, studios, and distributors alike to purchase films forward of a mainstream launch, like a movie market, besides these movies are already accomplished. When many of those films are first reviewed by movie critics, it might probably assist create numerous early buzz earlier than they’re wolfed up and may assist coax consumers to nab them faster than others.
The Deepest Breath
Picture: A24 / Netflix
First up is The Deepest Breath, a freediving documentary from Laura McGann that could be a partnership between Netflix and A24 Films resulting in some optimistic/blended opinions from The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, and IndieWire.
Here is the movie’s official synopsis and which reads as follows:
“Descending to remarkable depths below the sea on one single breath, Alessia Zecchini enters what she describes as the last quiet place on Earth. The Italian champion is determined to set a new world record in freediving, a dangerous extreme sport in which competitors attempt to reach the greatest depth without the use of scuba gear. Freedivers are often subject to blackouts upon ascent, necessitating the help of safety divers like Stephen Keenan, a free-spirited Irish adventurer who fell in love with the sport in Dahab, Egypt. Having formed a special bond on the freediving circuit, Alessia and Stephen train together to make an attempt on Dahab’s legendary Blue Hole and its challenging 85-foot-long tunnel 184 feet below the Red Sea, their fates inextricably bound together.”
Run Rabbit Run
Picture: XYZ Films
Another undertaking they secured final week from the pageant is Run Rabbit Run, an Australian psychological thriller that stars Succession actress Sarah Snook as a fertility physician. Daina Reid (The Shining Girls, The Handmaid’s Tale) directs from a script penned by screenwriter Hannah Kent. While the premise appears excellent fodder for Netflix, which is crammed to the brim with spooky thrillers, the opinions for Run Rabbit Run haven’t been terribly glowing, with The Playlist, Collider, Variety, and Bloody Disgusting suggesting the underwhelming pic is just a little too conversant in some saying it’s a lighter model of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook.
You can learn the official logline for the Aussie horror flick under:
“Fertility doctor Sarah begins her beloved daughter Mia’s seventh birthday expecting nothing amiss. But as an ominous wind swirls in, Sarah’s carefully controlled world begins to alter. Mia begins behaving oddly and a rabbit appears outside their front door — a mysterious birthday gift that delights Mia but seems to deeply disconcert Sarah. As days pass, Mia becomes increasingly not herself, demanding to see Sarah’s long-estranged, hospitalized mother (the grandmother she’s never met before) and fraying Sarah’s nerves as the child’s bizarre tantrums begin to point her toward Sarah’s own dark history. As a ghost from her past re-enters Sarah’s life, she struggles to cling to her distant young daughter.”
Fair Play
Fair Play – Picture: Netflix
The streamer has additionally picked-up the high-profile movie “Fair Play” and, in line with Deadline, paid a formidable $20 million for the worldwide rights to it.
A movie from writer-director Chloe Domont, an alumnus of the profitable drama sequence Billions, Fair Play stars Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as an engaged New York couple that sees their relationship change when the ability dynamics start to shift into one thing a bit extra sinister. Reviews from Vanity Fair, Variety, and IndieWire are a bit extra type to the monetary drama, telegraphing that the pic may very well be just a little extra accessible to audiences. Although, The Playlist wasn’t as impressed as others had been with the characteristic movie.
You can take a look at the thriller’s synopsis proper right here:
“Hot off the heels of their new engagement, thriving New York couple Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) can’t get enough of each other. When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, supportive exchanges between the lovers begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, Luke and Emily must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition.”
Victim/Suspect
Picture: Netflix
Victim/Suspect was only in the near past confirmed to be among the many 2023 film slate lineup and made its world premiere on the Sundance Film Festival.
Here’s what the brand new documentary, directed by Nancy Schwartzman, is about:
“Investigative journalist Rae de Leon travels nationwide to uncover and examine a shocking pattern: Young women tell the police they’ve been sexually assaulted, but instead of finding justice, they’re charged with the crime of making a false report, arrested, and even imprisoned by the system they believed would protect them.”
This is probably going only a style of what the streaming service shall be shopping for up all through the pageant runs in 2023, and their decisions appear to be very on-brand for them. More titles are anticipated to be picked up all through the week as Sundance continues to showcase these new films, and we’ll hold updating the checklist as these initiatives change into a part of the Netflix household. Stay tuned.