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Zola

Sat, Aug 14 / 9:45pm
Sun, Aug 15, 7:10pm
Tue, Aug 17 / 9:05pm
Wed, Aug 18 / 7pm
Thu, Aug 19 / 9:05pm
Sat, Aug 21 / 7:50pm
Sun, Aug 22 / 3pm
Thu, Aug 26 / 7pm
Directed by Janicza Bravo
2021, USA, 90 min

From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola’s stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. Zola (newcomer Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of “hoeism” rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures in this wild, see-it-to-believe-it tale.

Reviews

It’s a movie by a Black woman about a Black woman … that doesn’t just capture a nuanced and specific experience, but the rollicking and resonant digital audience that initially embraced it.
– Jacob Oller – Paste
This movie exemplifies the power of the cinema – even the popular and commercial and invigoratingly swingy cinema – to reflect the inner life through imaginative methods that, at the same time, reveal the fractures and complexities of public life with probing and passionate insight.
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
the dark twists and turns that the story takes you on need to experienced first hand and without warning, as while the not-even-90-minutes run-time absolutely zips by at a breakneck pace, and the laughs remain pretty much constant, the movie also has the power to morph into something truly nerve-wracking and potentially disturbing whenever it feels like it.
– Rory Cashin, Joe
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