Think about this—you’re a schlubby professor, an everyman, the form of dad who makes folks roll their eyes and say, “okay, Boomer,” and also you’re okay with it. After which, immediately, you start showing in folks’s goals. Not simply the individuals who know you—everybody begins to see you of their goals. And with social media being what it’s, your fifteen minutes of fame are arising quick.
That is the premise of writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Situation, from A24. Oh, and did we point out that Nic Cage is starring?
Borgli is a Norweigan director, and that is his first English language movie. His 2022 debut, Sick of Myself, handled a dysfunctional pair of efficiency artists who’re chasing social media fame. Dream Situation appears involved with the identical form of parasocial relationships and dives into the bizarre, supernatural, imaginary relationships folks have with the oldsters they solely learn about as a result of they’ve seen their face.
Now I’m a self-admitted Nic Cage stan. I even liked his over-the-top campy Dracula in Renfield. Dream Situation appears to point out the just-barely-there restraint that introduced Cage again into the highlight with Pig blended with the self effacing qualities of The Insufferable Weight of Huge Expertise. And I find it irresistible when Cage does his factor. “It was top-of-the-line scripts I’ve learn, fairly frankly, and I feel it’s my greatest efficiency and possibly one of the best film I’ve ever made,” mentioned Cage in a press launch.
The movie moreover stars Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula, and Dylan Baker.
Dream Situation will launch in theaters on November 10.
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