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Fanta Masters: Gregg Araki

Smiley Face

Gregg ARAKI

USA2007 85min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

9 AM, marihuana-high Jane, Roommate Steve's marihuana cupcake ("Don't you dare touch it!"), Jane gobbling up the whole cake, getting stoned to the eyes, her day becoming more and more out of control mocking her efforts to correct the wrong... Gregg ARAKI, a former American new queer cinema advocate, presents his latest stoner comedy —a non-stop hilarious ride to Giggle Land. Expect no logic, no clear-cut plot, though her world as she perceives it in her drug-induced hallucination is very real and persuasive! Expect no sympathy from ARAKI. He makes it abundantly clear she's the target of his biggest mockery: She is a sluggard, a paragon of Capitalist consumer, willing to do anything to maintain her comfortable, luxurious life. Join Anna FARIS (Scary Movie) in her perfect portrayal of the doped-up Jane. (CHO Hye Young)

Diretor

Gregg ARAKI

Gregg Araki was born in Los Angeles, California in December 1959 and earned an MFA in film production from USC's School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in film studies from UC Santa Barbara. His feature-film credits include Smiley Face, Mysterious Skin, Splendor, Nowhere, The Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up, The Living End, The Long Weekend (o' Despair) and Three Bewildered People in the Night, most of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Araki's films have screened at the world's most prestigious film festivals, including Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Deauville, London, and New York.