Father figure

2024
Watched this on the plane home from Taipei on my phone. This felt too familiar to me… too real
Schoenbrun, who identifies as trans and non-binary, spoke about the film’s resonance with queer audiences and said, “The movie does speak for itself, to a certain degree, to the people who are listening. The fact that certain audiences can watch it and not be able to find that legibility, whereas other audiences can watch and be bawling their eyes out and talk about it surfacing feelings that are deep and visceral ― to me, that almost feels like the thing I’m most proud of.”