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Fucktoys
Annapurna Sriram
- 2025
- USA
- Comedy
- 1h46mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
Because she’s lost a tooth, AP consults a fortune teller in the bayou, who tells her that she has been cursed, and will have to sacrifice a lamb and pay one thousand dollars. With her faithful friend Danni, she travels across the country to find money by selling her body to break the curse.
You’re looking for a US oddity worthy of Sweet East (shown at l’Étrange two years ago)? Search no more. A trashy fantasy shot in 16mm in Louisiana, Fucktoys depicts an alienated America but chooses to fantasize it, to mutate it into weird eccentricity. Before and behind the camera, Annapurna Sriram could well have led AP’s adventures into sordidness, but her ode to sorority, her kitschiness, her very caring frontally queer outlook, make her Gregg Araki’s worthy heir: raw, poetic and radiant.
Screenings
05/09 • 21h45 • Screen 500
In the director's presence
11/09 • 19h00 • Screen 500
Credits
- With : Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, François Arnaud, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Damian Young...
- Screenplay : Annapurna Sriram
- Photography : Cory Fraiman-Lott
- Editing : Grason Caldwell, Lilly Wild
- Music by : Jake Orrall
- Production : Timothy Petryni, Robert Bowman, Tracy Keller, Mary Elizabeth Monda, Dan Schroeder
