The comedy drama “I’m not crazy” from the cult studio A24, which will be released in Ukrainian on June 23, is an uncompromising film about a woman between nerves, which has won international acclaim film festivals that became a hit at Sundance, the Berlinale and film festivals in Toronto and New York.
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Rose Byrne, who won the leading role in the series and called it “the creative pinnacle of her career,” is demonstrating on the screen her most important acting work for 25 career roles and is now reaching the leading race of the national season.
“I'm not crazy!” – a story about how rich women like it
This skinny woman like Mitya said to herself, “I’m not dirty!” – either through work obsessions, or through everyday or family problems. The main heroine of the film, Linda (Rose Byrne), is a woman herself, with the same, but even bigger problems. Lindy's boyfriend is constantly away, and she herself is trying to deal with her very ill daughter and a bunch of everyday problems, which culminate in a pipe bursting, through which a huge hole is created near the wall, and in apartments – private swimming pool. It’s no wonder that the ashes of everything in Lindy, as they seem, begin to give rise to nerves. And this psychotherapist (Conan O'Brien) does not relieve the fatigue, but rather devolves the woman's mental state with his toxic comments. So can Linda be happy with herself, otherwise she’ll just leave the shore?
Honest history, based on the special evidence of motherhood
Writer and director Meri Bronstein created “I'm Not a Woman”, focusing on the personal difficult experience of motherhood, dealing with illness and being a shady child. “I realized: there is no film that traces the axis of this particular type of anxiety that I felt – the crazy mental state of a mother who is struggling with the illness of a child,” – as the director who wrote such make a film.
Bronstein made her heroine a psychotherapist by profession, but not casually. “Linda is now studying the human psyche closely, but it is not a matter of ruin and power when the child’s health needs become more and more intense. The constant problem of the child’s illness metastasizes among the whole the whole world of turbos – both different and great. A whole lot of prospects, but Linda has spent all of hers,” the director says.
For Bronstein, who has a master's degree in psychology herself, the idea of sending a therapist to a nightmarish psychological odyssey was especially daunting. And for Lindy on the right, it’s not a bad thing that her particular life is falling apart – she’s also losing her professional identity. And yet, the problem of mental health no longer feels either good or mentally healthy. And Lindy’s conflict with her domineering therapist reinforces this revelation. “The film has a whole set of sidekicks and … but no one successfully speaks about anyone,” says the author.
Along with dear Lindy, there are also a number of judgmental experts and fakists who, from Lindy’s weak point of view, respect her insufficiently rich material and the obvious source of problems. And there is also a probe for the baby’s birth – a kind of symbol of Linda’s inability to enjoy the situation.
“I wanted to bring justice to the child and focus on Lindy’s feelings,” says Bronstein, “And even if you are very careful in exposing the child, who is worried about her mother in such a camp, all of you will immediately hear goes to the child. In addition, Linda is under such pressure that you literally cannot accept your child as she really is. babble It’s just like a burden and a goiter. The only thing you can do is to pour more money into the probe. The mechanics of watching over the child – the axis that occupies Lindy’s brain instead of the child as a special feature. And then, if we finally find something to expose the little ones, this may be a signal that everything has changed for the better.”
Behind the words of the director, call films about women, men are filmed between the nervous eyes, and through this we cannot see on the screen a new and relevant picture of what I will become. “It seems to me that perhaps all these films made by people cast a new perspective. The same as what I wanted – not to get lost in Lindy’s inner space, so that you make the world so terrible In the same way, Linda is in the process of being judged, and I’m sure that the viewers will also judge her until the end of her life. How sleepy can you be? Are you up to this woman?”
The lead actress, Rose Byrne, is a key contender for the upcoming Oscar.
The new role of Lindy Rose Byrne is an Australian actress who achieved fame in Hollywood, appearing in such great films as “Troy”, “Marie Antoinette”, “Inferno”, “Bridesmaids”, “Insidious 2”, as well as in Apple TV+ series “In the Rhythm of Life” (also known as “Physical Education” and “Fitness”). Prote Byrne has never played a heroine, but she is as gloomy as Linda, who literally lives with her nerves.
“When I wrote the script, I didn’t consider anyone specific for this role, and it was important for me to figure out who could play it as required,” says Bronstein. “I selected the actors and put together lists after lists.” I’ve been on these lists for a long time – the main role of the robots in the series “In the Rhythm of Life” (Byrne played the heroine there, I’m quite similar to Linda: a tormented housewife who struggles with a man and a problem with bulimia The television fitness empire began to dominate in the 1980s, – ed.). Because I thought that if I took all the pressure off Rose, I could go as far as I needed to sing for the role of Lindy. And now the film is Rose.”
The actor herself calls her work in “I’m not a Zalizna” the creative pinnacle of her career. And, well, it’s true, and it’s not just that Rose Byrne has already won for her work “The Bear” at the Berlinale for the best leading role and is considered one of the main contenders for being among the list of Oscar nominees.
Rapper A$AP Rocky, who is like an actor in the film
The film has another large-scale aspect: rapper, music producer and the man of Rihanni's singer A$AP Rocky, who plays James – a non-turbocharged motel into which Linda and her daughter are afraid to move after a catastrophe with their authorities apartments.
“I named this character after James Dean, because I wanted them to be cool and be on a completely different planet than Linda,” says Bronstein. “James’s world is all right, even though Linda is closed in baked. I was looking for traditional actors for this role, but the A24 studio proposed the idea of trying a musician. And when Roki appeared on my Zoom screen, I realized that James is so cool! and charismatic. The only one who, if he points out Linda’s problems, is, in essence, to stand up to her. He tries to be a good person when he comes to her aid. What does he take away for this? More injury!”
A$AP Rocky describes the unique chemistry between Linda and James as platonic moans that make you wonder what will happen next. “It’s not often that you can see how the lives of people from different social backgrounds and lifestyles are so closely intertwined. It was less intriguing to see how two people establish connections, And how this magnetic energy flows between them,” both musician and actor.
“This film, designed to throw peeps out of a cold pit, quells the father's stress in a feverish sleep and strikes with thunderous force the ever-important star role of Rose Byrne and the uncompromising directed by Mary Bronstein,” is the consensus of critics on the website Rotten Tomatoes, where “I’m Not Salacious” has 94% of the top 100 positive reviews.
“I'm Not Zalizna” will be released on the 23rd
