DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Andrea Arnold
PRODUCERS: Thomas Benski, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Lucas Ochoa, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg
PRODUCTION CO: Parts and Labor, Pulse Films
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robbie Ryan
EDITOR: Joe Bini
WITH: Sasha Lane (Star), Shia LaBeouf (Jake), Riley Keough (Krystal), McCaul Lombardi (Corey), Arielle Holmes (Pagan), Crystal B. Ice (Katness), Verronikah Ezell (QT), Chad McKenzie Cox (Billy)

FESTIVALS: Cannes, Toronto

REVIEWS

“American Honey follows the trail of Texas teenager Star (Sasha Lane), who leaves her thankless life caring for her younger half-siblings to join a magazine sales crew on the road. These self-styled ‘sales associates’ are led by a glassy-eyed boss called Krystal (Riley Keough) and her pet salesman Jake (Shia LaBeouf)…

In opposition to countercultural road movies such as Easy Rider (1969), Krystal’s team travel in pursuit of the American Dream, not to escape it. The US lays out its inequalities for the crew through the van window – the spreading lawns of well-heeled suburbia, the slipshod children playing in motel car parks – and Krystal schemes to exploit them…

If American Honey has a message it is that dreams are always out of reach. Arnold’s cut-in shots of butterflies, birds and bugs failing to take flight reinforce the feeling that something is keeping these young Americans down…. Within a glittering collage of soaring music, soft light and writhing bodies, this brilliant film draws the outline of a bleak economic landscape.”

– Pamela Hutchinson, Sight and Sound

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Canterbury   
Monday, 28 February, 7.00pm

Carterton
Friday, 11 March, 7.30pm

Timaru
​Monday, 28 March, 6pm

Whanganui   
Monday, 11 April, 7.00pm

​​Hamilton  
Monday, 16 May, 8.00pm

Nelson     
Tuesday, 24 May, 6.00pm

Palmerston North  
Wednesday, 15 June, 6.00pm

​Wellington     
Monday, 4 July, 6.15pm

Auckland   
Monday, 11 July, 6:00pm

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