The mother of an autistic teenager who chooses a confidant recent graduate as her confidant, in Cha Cha Real Smooth directed and co-starred by 24-year-old Cooper Raiff, and a 30-year-old who takes the first steps to accept and explore her homosexuality in Am I Ok?
directed by Tig Notaro, brilliant and very popular stand up comedian, author, actress and here director together with his wife, actress and filmmaker Stephanie Allynne (The L Word: Generation Q).
There are two comedy / dramedy roles played by Dakota Johnson in the films of which she is also co-producer, with whom she returns to the Sundance film Festival.
"I hadn't come to Sundance since I was 22 and these are the first two projects produced by my production company (Tea time Productions, created with partner Ro Donnelly, ed) - explains the actress in the streaming meetings organized by the Festival , in one of which also appears for a moment the companion Chris Martin and the little dog Zeppelin anxious to be picked up -. We shot them both during the pandemic. "
The first one made, Am I ok?
tells the protagonist Lucy, both in her coming out at 30 and in her deep relationship with her best friend Jane (Sonoya Mizuno).
While Cha Cha Real Smooth, "
To attract the actress (who we will find in the hall from 24 March as co-interpreter of one of the eligible titles for the Oscars, The Dark Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal, from the book by Elena Ferrante, ed) to the two projects there was also the possibility to "embody women in their thirties who have not yet understood everything about themselves - he explains -. In general, in comedies of formation or on friendship of this type, at the end you see 20-year-olds who have perfectly clear who they are; which is impossible, because at twenty-year-olds we are almost all still idiots with very confused ideas ".
The world "would be a much calmer place if people were given more time to grow, mature and change," she points out.
In the cinema "I always see fully realized female archetypes and I don't identify with them.
no budget film he directed, starring and edited -.
I really love his voice as an author, the way he studies and understands people, to then be able to tell them in a unique and special key. "Furthermore, Vanessa Burghardt (actress really on the autism spectrum, ed), in the role of her daughter, "He won me over immediately, for the intelligence and purity of his questions, right from the first meeting we had on Zoom.
She arrived very well prepared on the set, which we wanted to be a safe and protective place from all points of view ".
no budget film he directed, starring and edited -.
I really love his voice as an author, the way he studies and understands people, to then be able to tell them in a unique and special key. "Furthermore, Vanessa Burghardt (actress really on the autism spectrum, ed), in the role of her daughter, "He won me over immediately, for the intelligence and purity of his questions, right from the first meeting we had on Zoom.
She arrived very well prepared on the set, which we wanted to be a safe and protective place from all points of view ".
he won me over immediately, for the intelligence and purity of his questions, right from the first meeting we had on Zoom.
She arrived very well prepared on the set, which we wanted to be a safe and protective place from all points of view ".
Now Dakota Johnson has, among others, another project as co-producer Daddio of Christy Hall, "in which I will be the protagonist with Sean Penn": it is the story of a woman who in a taxi, taken at the Jfk airport in New York, finds himself with the taxi driver in a deeper and deeper conversation about their love affairs.
(HANDLE).
