'American Honey': Watch the Debut U.S. Trailer for Cannes Jury Prize Winner
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Few films made a bigger splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival than American Honey, director Andrea Arnold’s critically hailed film about a group of twentysomethings traversing the U.S. by car selling magazine subscriptions — and getting into all sorts of rabble-rousing youthful trouble. It stars Shia LaBeouf, newcomer Sasha Lane, and Riley Keough, currently seen in the TV series based on Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film The Girlfriend Experience. On the heels of winning Cannes’ Jury Prize, A24 has released American Honey’s first trailer (watch it above) ahead of its expected U.S. release later this year.
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Yahoo Movies’ Kerrie Mitchell wrote about the film at Cannes — she’s quoted in the trailer stating “Director Andrea Arnold’s Vision is Hypnotic.” Her full review praised the film’s mood and style while also noting that perhaps the director had gone a bit overboard.
“It’s a wildly frustrating film that’s still admirable with its stunning cinematography (courtesy of Robbie Ryan), its unnerving atmosphere, and its audacity to dispense with most signposts of plot and instead focus on the throbbing backbeat of a car radio in a van full of rowdy, horny, aimless teenagers who are driving. And driving. And driving…
There’s too much of everything: too many scenes of the kids grooving to yet another song, too many shots of insects crawling, and too much LaBeouf, who needed some reining in (and, perhaps, a haircut: Jake has a ridiculous rat-tail braid that looks distractingly fake.) Still… It’s an open road that stays with you, even after you take the exit.”
Watch the trailer for ‘American Honey’ director Andrea Arnold’s previous film, ‘Wuthering Heights’ (2011):
