Shithouse

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Movie
Original title Shithouse
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 99 minutes
Rod
Director Cooper Raiff
script Cooper Raiff
production Divi Crockett ,
Cooper Raiff,
Will Youmans
music Jack Krauss
camera Rachel Klein
cut Autumn Dea ,
Cooper Raiff
occupation

Shithouse (English for " shit house ") is a tragic comedy by Cooper Raiff , which is due to hit US cinemas on October 16, 2020.

action

Until a few weeks ago, Alex in his early 20s was still living at home in Dallas with his mother and sister. Now he is studying in Los Angeles , 1,500 miles from home, and has almost given up making friends with his fellow students. Sam, with whom he shares a room, likes to get drunk and doesn't seem interested in friendship. He would like to get back to his family as soon as possible.

When the college freshman visits a campus party called "The Shithouse", to which the more extroverted Maggie from the dormitory has invited him, a lot should change for him that night. She invites him to spin the bottle, and they both walk around town all night sharing intimate memories. They talk about things they haven't told anyone before. Alex admits for the first time that he has no friends in college. Maggie tells of the recent loss of her turtle Pete.

When Maggie ignores him the next day and seems to have forgotten her special night, Alex is desperate and wishes things were back to the way they were before.

production

It is in Shithouse to the director and screenplay debut of Cooper Raiff , who are in the film in the lead role of Alex made his debut as an actor in a feature film. Raiff also produced the film together with Divi Crockett and Will Youmans and, in addition to Autumn Dea, also acted as film editor. Raiff said that when he got to college himself he had drifted there without getting anywhere , and Shithouse was his attempt to express what those years felt like and what he learned from some great friends.

Amy Landecker plays Alex's mother, Dylan Gelula plays his "Shithouse" party acquaintance Maggie and Logan Miller plays his roommate Sam.

Filming took place in Los Angeles and Carpinteria .

After the cancellation of the South by Southwest Film Festival , which was actually planned for March 2020 , the film was made available to participants digitally. The film is scheduled to be shown at the Florida Film Festival in August 2020. The film is scheduled to hit selected US cinemas on October 16, 2020.

reception

Reviews

David Ehrlich of IndieWire writes in his review that even if Cooper Raiff's debut film was shot with a certain distance, which reflects the indifference of the outside world, he still meets you with the openness of a video diary. The way Raiff plays his protagonist Alex, and practically everything else about Shithouse , is fascinating, and the dialogues felt neither improvised nor exaggerated. Whenever Shithouse seems to turn into any movie, Dylan Gelula in the role of Maggie is there to get things back on track. Shithouse is a promising debut from someone with a clear aptitude for personalizing shared experiences and knows that growing up can be a lonely process, but also that most people just feel like they have to go through it on their own, Ehrlich said.

Matthew Monagle from The Playlist notes in his review that as this evening unfolds, when Maggie and Alex roam the city, a dialogue begins between them that, in its kind of radical honesty, can only come about between two people who have only just met to have. Raiff understands this kind of honesty on a very intuitive level and would do well not to emphasize these moments in the film too much. When Maggie and Alex tell each other things that they have not even confided to loved ones, an intimacy develops between the two that makes him admit his loneliness . Maggie is the first to "see" something in Alex, relieve him of his homesickness and encourage him to deal with the world around him. In the event that there are doubts about where the sympathies of the film should flow, Raiff wrote some of the most important lines of dialogue for Alex to make it clear that Maggie is the one who needs to lead a more authentic life.

Awards

Florida Film Festival 2020

  • Received the Grand Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature

South by Southwest Film Festival 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Ehrlich: 'Shithouse' Review: 'Before Sunrise' Goes to College in 22-Year-Old Cooper Raiff's DIY Romantic Drama. In: indiewire.com, March 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d John DeFore: 'Shithouse': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter on March 25, 2020.
  3. ↑ Shithouse. In: sxsw.com. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ https://theplaylist.net/shithouse-review-sxsw-20200326/
  5. ↑ https://www.sxsw.com/film/2020/cooper-raiff-discusses-his-deeply-personal-debut-shithouse-sxsw-filmmaker-in-focus/
  6. ↑ Shithouse. In: floridafilmfestival.com. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ Shithouse. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  8. ↑ https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/shithouse
  9. ↑ https://theplaylist.net/shithouse-review-sxsw-20200326/
  10. ^ The 29th Florida Film Festival announces Grand Jury and Audience Award Winners. In: floridafilmfestival.com. Accessed on August 27, 2020 (PDF; 170 KB)
  11. ↑ Kate Erbland: XSW Winners: Despite Cancellation, Festival Announces Grand Jury Prizes. In: indiewire.com, March 24, 2020.