#desireeakhavan

[film-book]

Film Review: APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (2014): Akhavan’s Film Bristles With Potential https://tinyurl.com/yzlzby8v

[anniebergin]

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[frontmezzjunkies]

#frontmezzjunkies is thrilled to be at the press screening of #DesireeAkhavan's #THEMISEDUCATIONOFCAMERONPOST being held at #TribecaScreeningRoom From writer/director Desiree Akhavan and based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.)—himself an example of how those in the program can be “cured”—the center is built upon repenting for “same sex attraction.” In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane), and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam (Forrest Goodluck). Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive. tw: frontmezzjunkie IG/tumblr/FB: @Frontmezzjunkies #outercriticscircle (at Tribeca Screening Room)

[doohicky]

The filmic equivalent of an awkward smile frozen between a joke and a stab - Creep 2 (Blair Witch in The Office) #creep2 #patrickkackbrice #markduplass #desireeakhavan

[movizark-blog]

‘Creep 2’ Trailer: Never, Ever, Ever Trust Anyone on the Internet!! Check It Out!!

‘Creep 2’ Trailer: Never, Ever, Ever Trust Anyone on the Internet!! Check It Out!! #Creep2, #MarkDuplass, #DesireeAkhavan, #Blumhouse

Synopsis – A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes that she made a deadly mistake.

Directed – Patrick Brice

Starring – Mark Duplass, Karan Soni, Patrick Brice

Check out the trailer:

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[steveschofield]

Director and actor Desiree Akhavan photographed by me in Beverly Hills. #DesireeAkhavan #AppropriateBehaviour #portrait

[hudsonwmn-blog-blog]

Forever discovering how to be. 

Appropriate Behavior is a film by Desiree Akhavan about Shirin, a bisexual woman in her twenties living in Brooklyn. Depending on where you stand on the tolerance-for-complicated-female-characters spectrum, Shirin is either “kind of gay,” as she describes herself to her mother, or a “sexually confused narcissist” according to her brother.

Synopses across the internet designate Shirin’s antics as a youthful, millennial response to her brother’s engagement to a perfect Persian woman. What these synopses take for granted is writer and director Akhavan’s deep truths about immigrant identity, an identity that is further confounded by the very human experience of being a young gay woman in America. She approaches subversive expectations head on, challenging us to question what is truly appropriate behavior if the reining narrative is exclusively white and heterosexual. What if there is no authentically normative experience in the first place? 

The parallels to the show Girls are not unwarranted. Desiree Akhavan does have a guest spot on the new season after all, but I don’t hold on to any similarities beyond that at the risk of devaluing Akhavan and her work. For more about Akhavan, her life, and her "breakthrough breakup", listen to her interview with Anna Seale on NPR’s Death, Sex, and Money podcast. 

I always held this kind of pop culture close because I was removed enough to safely embrace the caricatures; I spent the last three years living in America’s backcountry, and watching shows like Girls or Broad City brought to the surface the person that I would be if my circumstances were more cosmopolitan. But now that I'm a mere train ride from New York City, and bereft of full-time work, I see myself completely in these characters whose themes of belonging and avoidance of change are vibrating all around me. Growing up as a woman today, it seems, is more demanding and baroque than ever. 

P.S. There’s an endearing cameo by Scott Adsit (a sight to behold for any recovering 30 Rock fans) who provides flippant comic relief amid the mordant humor.  

[onlinemarketerhere]

An Interview with #DesireeAkhavan, Who Is Not the Next Lena Dunham

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