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Lena Dunham’s next project sees her in quite the pickle.
According to an official synopsis, Froseth’s protagonist character Sarah Jo “is a naïve 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister” who “just longs to be seen.”
“When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power,” the synopsis adds.
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Sharp Stick(2022).Courtesy Image
The movie marks Dunham’s first big-screen directorial project since 2010’sTiny Furniture, in which she also appeared alongside a cast including herGirlscostarJemima Kirke.
“It was a time where female sexuality was very explored,” she said. “But often these amazing female characters are also being explored from a male [point of view], and that comes with certain, I think, misperceptions about female sexuality.”
“I was interested in the idea of creating a film that delved into some of those same [themes], but from a female perspective, and then also of a character who had dealt with a certain kind of trauma,” Dunham explained.
Dunham said in a statement toIndieWirewhile discussingSharp Stick, “It’s a joke as old as celluloid that the minute we spot a sexually active girl in a horror movie, we know she’s going to die in a blood death.”
“She’s let someone touch her below the neck, and so she’s marked for murder,” she continued. “But there’s a more subtle crime we commit toward women on camera, where female characters who dare to take a journey sexually may not get full-on murdered, but they do endure another kind of torture — one more exquisite and subtle.”
Dunham went on to describe the torture as one “of judgment, of questioning, of self-doubt and loneliness and regret over choices that should ultimately just be part of thefabric of self-actualizationin that same way it can be for their male counterparts.”
Also starringJennifer Jason Leigh,Taylour Paige,Scott Speedman,Luka Sabbatand Ebon Moss-Bachrach,Sharp Stickpremieres in L.A. and N.Y.C. theaters July 29, and nationwide Aug. 5. It hits streaming platforms Aug. 16.
source: people.com
