May 6, 2023
Awol (Deb Shoval, 2016)
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Awol (Deb Shoval, 2016)
AWOL (2016) Deb Shoval 19-07-2018 Nothing special, but nice to see a relationship drama set in a small town
AWOL (2016), dir. Deb Shoval
We're spotlighting Tribeca selections centered around LGBT subjects every day of LGBT Pride Month. Throughout the month of March, you'll be seeing films and series by everyone from William Friedkin and Whoopi Goldberg to Jody Lee Lipes and Ira Sachs. Follow along and seek these treasures out!
Today's selection is writer-director Deb Shoval's AWOL, a deeply moving gem that chronicles the unlikely bond between a yearning army recruit and a married, small-town mother that leads to romance, enacted through two lovely, luminous performances from Lola Kirke and Breeda Wool. This eye-opening lesbian drama, set amid the background of a depressed Pennsylvania coal town, is another worthy example of how queer narratives are finally appearing with much more rapidity on our film screens.
AWOL (Deb Shoval, 2016)
AWOL (2017) OFFICIAL TRAILER - The story follows Joey, a young woman in search of direction in her small town; a visit to an army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipates.
awol (2016) dir. deb shoval
AWOL by Deb Shoval.
Synopsis: Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle, Mistress America) shines as Joey, an aimless high school graduate searching for a way out of Pennsylvania coal country. A visit to an Army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but a chance encounter with magnetic Rayna (UnReal’s Breeda Wool), a slyly seductive housewife and mother neglected by her long-haul trucker husband, changes Joey’s trajectory irrevocably. As Joey falls ever more deeply in love with Rayna, clouded judgment leads her down a path she can’t turn back from. With winning lead performances from Kirke and Wool and a strong supporting cast, director Deb Shoval’s muscular feature film debut is a splendid and brooding meditation on the boundless possibilities of first love constricted by the trials of rural poverty.