After breaking out with his debut Wetlands, director David Wnendt returned to Sundance Film Festival with his English-language debut The Sunlit Night, starring Jenny Slate, Zach Galifianakis, Alex Sharp, and Gillian Anderson. The film follows Slate’s character as a woman who has reached a dead end in her life in America and ventures to a Norwegian island for an art residency that becomes much more strange than expected.
Following its premiere last year at Sundance, the adaptation of Rebecca Dinerstein’s novel is now set for a release next month, and the first trailer and poster have landed. Unfortunately, reviews for this one weren’t too positive across the board, but for Jenny Slate fans, it’s nice to see her in another leading role after Obvious Child.
See the trailer and poster below.
The Sunlit Night follows an aspiring painter (Slate) from New York City to the farthest...
Following its premiere last year at Sundance, the adaptation of Rebecca Dinerstein’s novel is now set for a release next month, and the first trailer and poster have landed. Unfortunately, reviews for this one weren’t too positive across the board, but for Jenny Slate fans, it’s nice to see her in another leading role after Obvious Child.
See the trailer and poster below.
The Sunlit Night follows an aspiring painter (Slate) from New York City to the farthest...
- 6/22/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
By the time things in Frances’ life have really gone topside — her boyfriend has dumped her, her little sister is marrying a guy her family hates, her parents are separating, she has nowhere to live, and that’s without even mentioning the leeches — the would-be painter is literally begging for scraps.
“Give me the thing that nobody wants!,” she implores an unimpressed New York City curator who previously tried to offer Frances another painting residency that nobody wanted, a desperate plea that lands Frances at the top of the world (a nightless Lapland in high summer). There, stuck with a gruff boss and a mostly boring apprenticeship — painting a decrepit barn sunshine yellow — Frances tries to find herself.
She’s not alone, as David Wnendt’s “The Sunlit Night,” while clearly centered on Frances’ journey, has teed up another lost soul to join her in the beautiful, alienating Norwegian environment.
“Give me the thing that nobody wants!,” she implores an unimpressed New York City curator who previously tried to offer Frances another painting residency that nobody wanted, a desperate plea that lands Frances at the top of the world (a nightless Lapland in high summer). There, stuck with a gruff boss and a mostly boring apprenticeship — painting a decrepit barn sunshine yellow — Frances tries to find herself.
She’s not alone, as David Wnendt’s “The Sunlit Night,” while clearly centered on Frances’ journey, has teed up another lost soul to join her in the beautiful, alienating Norwegian environment.
- 1/27/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In “The Sunlit Night,” Rebecca Dinerstein shows that she can write funny breakups, awkward Jewish family gatherings, and sweet-and-sour wedding speeches. One doubts she had to go all the way to the Norwegian Arctic to develop that skill, but at least her pilgrimage paid off in the form of the kind of personal writing sample — a twee running-from-romance-only-to-find-it comedy set at that far Northern remove — that, while unlikely ever to be produced, might easily score her work on the staff of a sitcom.
Except her screenplay (first published as a novel) did get produced, and now exists as the kind of movie that Sundance audiences love (the opening-night crowd laughed in all the right places) but hardly anyone goes to see in general release. Stranger still, it has been directed by German director David Wnendt — whose last film, “Wetlands,” was an outrageous celebration of the many things that can be...
Except her screenplay (first published as a novel) did get produced, and now exists as the kind of movie that Sundance audiences love (the opening-night crowd laughed in all the right places) but hardly anyone goes to see in general release. Stranger still, it has been directed by German director David Wnendt — whose last film, “Wetlands,” was an outrageous celebration of the many things that can be...
- 1/27/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly five years ago, Jenny Slate and author-screenwriter Rebecca Dinerstein enjoyed an Ephron-esque meet-cute that spawned the Sundance film The Sunlit Night. Slate was on the phone with her mother while walking through a Brooklyn park. Dinerstein had recently seen the Slate star vehicle Obvious Child and gave the actress a silent round of applause. Slate, reluctant to interrupt her mother, blew Dinerstein a kiss. "Later, she tweeted at me, 'You blew me a kiss in the park. Would you ever read a galley copy of my novel?' And I was like, 'Yeah, sure,'" Slate recalls. The ...
- 1/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Nearly five years ago, Jenny Slate and author-screenwriter Rebecca Dinerstein enjoyed an Ephron-esque meet-cute that spawned the Sundance film The Sunlit Night. Slate was on the phone with her mother while walking through a Brooklyn park. Dinerstein had recently seen the Slate star vehicle Obvious Child and gave the actress a silent round of applause. Slate, reluctant to interrupt her mother, blew Dinerstein a kiss. "Later, she tweeted at me, 'You blew me a kiss in the park. Would you ever read a galley copy of my novel?' And I was like, 'Yeah, sure,'" Slate recalls. The ...
- 1/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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