AARON SCHIMBERG’S
CHAINED
FOR
LIFE
starring JESS WEIXLER as MABEL / ADAM PEARSON as ROSENTHAL
CHARLIE KORSMO as HERR DIRECTOR / SARI LENNICK as SARAH / STEPHEN PLUNKETT as MAX
screenplay by AARON SCHIMBERG
casting KATE GELLER / JESSICA KELLY
costume design STACEY BERMAN / KAREN BOYER
production design SIA BALABANOVA / director of photography ADAM J. MINNICK
editor SOFI MARSHALL / music C. SPENCER YEH
produced by VANESSA MCDONNELL / DAN SCHOENBRUN /
MATTHEW PETOCK / DANIEL PATRICK CARBONE / ZACHARY SHEDD
a GRAND MOTEL / THE EYESLICER / FLIES COLLECTIVE production
TRAILER
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
REVIEWS:
“A truly mesmerizing mind trip of a movie sure to leave audiences reeling and pondering its mysteries long after the credits roll.” - Indiewire
“Strikes an uncanny note I’m not sure I’ve quite seen before – something mesmerizingly close to the sensation of a waking dream. I hope it enjoys a long successful life, exciting others as it excited me.” – Village Voice
“Bizarre and beautiful. Leaves us on thrillingly shifty ground. Schimberg confidently blurs the line between fantasy and reality, treating his characters with equivalent, complicated affection, a warmth very much the filmmaker’s own.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Extraordinary. Schimberg points toward a grass-roots cinematic revolution – movies made by people about their own experiences.” – The New Yorker
“I love it. An intoxicating whirlwind of ideas, spectacularly moving and entertaining. Chained for Life could be a defining film about representation for any group that Hollywood marginalizes.” - Birth.Movies.Death
“An astonishing film. It offers no easy answers but it asks questions, it provokes thoughts, it portrays portrayal in a radically new way.” - Jezebel
“A very funny, eminently quotable send-up of the independent film world that probes at how cinema constructs normative ideas of attraction and allure.” - RogerEbert.com
“Brilliantly observed, technically skillful and not afraid to be cruel when occasion calls for it, this is a film with a lot to say and absolutely no fear of saying it.” – Eye for Film
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TRT: 91 MIN | COLOR | DCP | 5.1 SURROUND